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Miyamoto Tsuneyasu: Leading the Future of Japanese Football

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The JFA has seen significant success lately, and when asked what’s behind this achievement, Miyamoto pointed to the solid youth training system established in Japan since the late seventies. To him, Japan has a really good youth training system and dedicated coaches worked hard to align their training methods, helping to develop young players. Miyamoto claimed that he was one of the lucky ones who benefited from the system in Japan. And he believes the foundation laid decades ago continues to pay off, with players showcasing their skills on European stages today”

JPF Interview

World Cup Legend & Greatest Croatian Striker Davor Suker Speaks Football With JPF

“You know what was the quality of Croatia back then? We never surrender; we never give up. And we loved playing against a strong national team! What was there for us to lose? Nothing! We beat Italy, we beat Germany, we beat England, we beat all the big teams. Then again, all these started young in Croatia. And that’s also what I wanted to do: motivate all the young players to be proud of their country. The moment they touch their football crest or flag on their chest, singing the National Anthem out loud, it’s the country pride they have to play for. In that 1998 World Cup, we showed just that”

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Footraveller Ueda Asahi Looking Forward to Southeast Asian Football Success

“Japan missed the 1994 World Cup in the United States with just seconds remaining. And for the 1998 World Cup in France, Japan won the playoffs with a golden goal. It was because of these two ‘hells’ (Doha-1993, where the Japanese cried) and ‘heaven’ (Johor Bahru-1997, where we got our revenge and cried tears of joy) that Japanese football improved drastically. 

Southeast Asian countries will also soon experience their own ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ as Southeast Asia will play one of the most exciting, if not the most exciting, World Cup Qualifiers in the World Cup”

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FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar: 5 Most Disppointing Teams

“Lots of upsets, plenty of miracles, and a handful of unforeseen; the FIFA World Cup 2022 had seen it all. Champions Argentina managed to leave behind their shock opening game defeat to Saudi Arabia and go on to win the tournament, but a few other giants could not follow suit. We now look at the 5 most disappointing teams who could not even make it past the group stage”

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FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar: Asian Pride

“It was the same bulk of nations who featured in the 2018 edition in Russia, with Qatar the only addition this year. And it also proved to be a much better showing of home support for the Asian nations, as 3 countries progressed to the knockout stage compared to only 1 four years ago – Japan.

It is also the first time that 3 Asian countries made it past the group stage, beating the record of 2 in 2010 and 2002. Let us look at each of the 6 countries’ journeys in the World Cup 2022 and how they fared”

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2 Times AFC Champions League winner hosted Junpiter Futbol to an enlightening & memorable Learning Trip

Since last season, more than 10 players from the Academy have progressed to the first team, and many have even went on to play in Europe and subsequently the World Cup. Interestingly, some of the futsal pitches at Redsland are actually built using the transfer fees from some of the players’ move to Europe.

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Junpiter Futbol in Russia: 8 Observations from World Cup 2018

Junpiter Futbol had the privilege to be in Russia for the recent FIFA World Cup 2018 for a period of eight days, although it came down to only five full days excluding flying and travelling in between Moscow and Saint Petersburg via inter-city train, Sapsan.

During our time there, we caught two matches – Russia vs Egypt and Brazil vs Costa Rica – both at the new Saint Petersburg Stadium just four days apart. Here we sum up our unique experience in Eastern Europe.

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