Japan and Adidas have unveiled the new away shirt that the Japanese national team will wear in the upcoming World Cup to be held in South Africa. The Samurai Blue, as they are nicknamed because of their blue home shirts, are one of the most successful national teams from Asia, having won the AFC Asian [...]

Urawa Red Diamonds is one of the most supported clubs in Japan and in Asia. They play their home games in Saitama Stadium, built for the 2002 World Cup co-hosted by Korea and Japan. In 2009, the team ranked 6th in the J league table, but in their history, they have won it in 2006 [...]

Japan qualified for the South African World Cup after finsihgn second in Group A of the AFC World Cup qualifiers. The group consisted of Australia who topped the group with 20 points, 5 points ahead of Japan, seeing Bahrain, Qatar and Uzbekistan filling in the remaining positions.
Japan’s best ever run in the World Cup was [...]

Originally founded in 1980, but later renamed to Gamba Osaka in 1991, they are a Japanese club playing in the J-League, which is the top tier in Japanese football. In the past season, they have ranked 8th in the J-League table with 50 points. Gamba Osaka won the Emperor’s Cup, which is a very prestigious [...]

Urawa Red Diamonds is a Japanese football club playing in J-League Division 1. The club was founded in 1950 and managed to finish their last season in seventh place. The club have recently unveiled their new home shirt for 2009.
Their new shirt is red and is manufactured by nike. Nike’s logo is placed in the [...]

Jubilo Iwata is a Japanese club from Shizuoka, founded in 1970. They currently play in the J-League 1st Division, the top level of Japanese football. In the past season, they ranked in an embarassing 16th place out of 18 teams, avoiding relegation by a goal difference of just 4 goals. They are very lucky to [...]

Shimizu S-Pulse is a Japanese club from Shizuoka, and which currently plays in the First Division of the J-League. In the season that has just ended, Shimizu ranked 5th, only 8 points behind winners Kashima Antlers. The new season is likely to begin on the 7th March and end on the 5th December. Shimizu have [...]

Kawasaki Frontale is a J.League football club. The team is located south of Tokyo and was created in 1955 under the name Fujitsu FC becoming Kawasaki Frontale in 1997. The club has won two league titles under its new name.
The home shirt for 2009 is blue and black in colour and has been created by Asics. [...]

The first matches at the Olympic Football Tournament in Beijing have been played and as we could notice, some of the national teams have changed their team kits. The nations which are competing in the tournament are: Brazil (Nike), Argentina (adidas), New Zealand (Nike), USA (Nike), Honduras (Joma), The Netherlands (Nike), Serbia (Kappa), Belgium [...]

Back in December we showed you what the new Japanese home shirt was going to look like and now we have a look at both the home & away shirts as well as the new goalkeeper shirts, created by adidas for Japan’s national football team. The new away kit is in white and features similar [...]