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Yokohama FC -- Preseason Summary
For sentimental reasons, the Rising Sun News would like nothing better than to see this team regain some of the past glory of the Yokohama Flugels franchise. If nothing else, it would provide an interesting derby contest to help liven up the football scene in Yokohama. But with the retirement of Motohiro Yamaguchi at the end of last season, the only remaining link to the Flugels era is an aging Atsuhiro Miura, whose performances at the tail end of last season made him look efen older than his geriatric namesake and teammate, Kazu Miura. And those are about the only two players who did NOT leave the club at the end of last season.
As we prepared to write our league forecasts for this season, we spent a lot of time thinking about what we should say in order to giver readers a clear picture of what they can expect from Yokohama FC in 2008. But this morning we saw a headline in one of the sports tabloids:
"Kazu Pledges to Play in Every Match, This Year."
That just about says it all, doesnt it?
2007 Finish: Last Place (J1)
2008 Forecast: 7th-10th Place
Roster Changes
IN |
| Pos. | Name | Former Team | Status |
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| FW | Yuta Nakano | Sanfrecce Youth | New signing |
| FW | Anderson | Sagan Tosu | Full transfer |
| FW | Sho Gokyu | Sagawa Kyubin | Full transfer |
| FW | Taro Hasegawa | Ventforet Kofu | Full transfer |
| FW | Tomoki Ikehata | Kashiwa Reysol | Full transfer |
| MF | Yusuke Sudo | Nagoya Grampus | Full transfer |
| MF | Tsuyoshi Hakkaku | Komazawa U. | New signing |
| DF | Masaki Yoshida | Hosei U. | New signing |
| DF | Kentaro Nakata | Grampus Youth | New signing |
| DF | Kenta Togawa | Tokyo Verdy | Full transfer |
| DF | Takafumi Yoshimoto | Mito Hollyhock | Full transfer |
| DF | Yosuke Nakata | Vegalta Sendai | Full transfer |
| DF | Kensuke Yatsuda | FC Tokyo | Full transfer |
| GK | Takuo Okubo | Teikyo HS | New signing |
OUT |
| Pos. | Name | New Team | Status |
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| FW | Tatsuhiko Kubo | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | Full transfer |
| FW | Mitsunori Yabuta | Gifu FC | Full transfer |
| FW | Kazuki Hiramoto | Tokyo Verdy | Rental ends |
| FW | Catetao | Braziliense | Rental ends |
| MF | Marcos Paulo | ->Portuguese ->SPulse | Rental ends |
| MF | Oh Jang-Eun | Pohang Steelers | Rental ends |
| MF | Chung Yong-Dae | Consadole Sapporo | Rental->full transfer |
| MF | Motohiro Yamaguchi | --- | Retired |
| MF | Daisuke Oku | --- | Retired |
| MF | Yohei Sakai | --- | Released |
| MF | Tomoyuki Yoshino | Gainare Tottori | Full transfer |
| MF | Shingo Nejime | Tokyo Verdy | Full transfer |
| MF | Hiromasa Kanazawa | Mito Hollyhock | Rental->full transfer |
| MF | Takahisa Nishiyama | -> Frontale ->Vegalta | Rental ends |
| MF | Jun Tamano | Tokushima Vortis | Full transfer |
| MF | Satoshi Yoshioka | Thespa Kusatsu | Rental ends |
| DF | Norio Omura | Gainare Tottori | Full transfer |
| DF | Tomoya Uchida | Omiya Ardija | One-yr rental |
| DF | Ichiei Muroi | --- | Retired |
| DF | Takumi Wada | ->SPulse ->Verdy | Rental ends |
| DF | Takanori Nakajima | Avispa Fukuoka | Full transfer |
| DF | Yoichi Akiba | --- | Retired |
| DF | Kazuya Iwakura | --- | Released |
| GK | Takanori Sugeno | Kashiwa Reysol | Full transfer |
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National Team
Overseas Players
