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Roasso Kumamoto-- Preseason Summary
After struggling through some financial difficulties in the early years of the century, Sagan Tosu had a breif spell of success in early2005, and by the midpoint of the season people were beginning to wonder if perhaps Sagan was on the road to respectability. Unfortunately, the team fell apart at the end of the year, and finished mid-table, in eighth place. Though the team managed to improve its finances somewhat, and is no longer in danger of total collapse, it slipped back into the mediocrity that it had begun to epitomize.
Some time during the 2006 off-season, Sagan Tosu's management apparently decided that the way to break out of this rut was to make a complete change of its club image, adopting new team colours, a new team logo, and redesigning everything about the club This may have been a good idea, in principle, since the old Sagan "image" was pretty dull, dated, and nondescript. However, the design change was a fiasco of epic proportions -- more hideous than even the day-glo technicolour chaos of the 1994 Nagoya Grampus keeper's uniform. The overall effect is a bit difficult to describe accurately. The uniform colors that the team chose were baby blue and light pink, and the logo mark looks a bit like some child's scribbling (the words "Sagan Tosu", in a cursive font, are arranged in the shape of a bluebird, which is the team's mascot). The overall impression is just . . . . well . . . how should I say this . . .
Gay
Not "gay", as in Brokeback Mountain gay. Not "stylish gay" or "gay chic", or even "Razor Ramon, Hard Gay". Just totally, stereotypically, limpwristedly, baby-blue-and-pink closet-queen
GAY!
Lest anyone misunderstand, this critique has no relation to sexual preference or anything along those lines. Its just that there is no other word that could possibly sum up how ridiculous the team looks, in its cute widdle baby-blue-and-pink uny forms. One independent blogger and long-time Rising Sun News reader has even taken to calling the club "Molly Ringwald FC" (you know . . . "Pretty in Pink?). In the past, we have noted that under the right conditions, pink can be a "cool" color for footballers. "It takes a tough man to wear pink", as the saying goes. And in the case of Cerezo Osaka's flaming pink color scheme, this is definitely the case. However, that analogy can only be stretched so far. There is pink . . . and then there is . . . . pink. Aw heck, just see for yourself:
Now certainly, it would be wrong to judge a team based on its uniforms. And there is also the possibility that opposing players will be laughing so hard that they wont be able to make accurate passes or shots. But in our view, just overcoming the embarassment of having to appear in public looking like the guests of honour at a baby shower is hard enough for the Sagan Tosu players. And finishing in the top half of the table will be an insurmountable one.
2007 Finish: 8th Place
2008 Forecast: 8th-10th Place
Roster Changes
IN |
| Pos. | Name | Former Team | Status |
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| MF | Sho Shimoji | Aoyama Gakuin U. | New signing |
| MF | Yu Shimasaki | Juntendo U. | New signing |
| MF | Junya Yamashiro | Cerezo Osaka | Rental->full transfer |
| DF | Koichi Shibakoya | Oita Trinita | Rental extended |
| DF | Park Chong-Hei | Korea (University) | New signing |
| DF | Yusuke Yada | Alo's Hokuriku | Full transfer |
OUT |
| Pos. | Name | New Team | Status |
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| FW | Anderson | Yokohama FC | One-yr rental |
| MF | Leonardo | Tokyo Verdy | Rental extended |
| MF | Hiromasa Suguri | --- | Retired |
| DF | Megumu Yoshida | --- | Retired |
| MF | Takayuki Yamaguchi | Machida Zelvia | Full transfer |
| MF | Tatsuya Urahara | Machida Zelvia | Full transfer |
| MF | Shota Koide | Gainare Tottori | Full transfer |
| MF | Yuji Miyahara | Ehime FC | Rental->full transfer |
| DF | Junya Tanaka | JEF United | Rental ends |
| GK | Genki Ota | Gainare Tottori | One-yr rental |
| GK | Kenji Tanaka | Machida Zelvia | Full transfer |
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