Preview: Japan vs. Brazil

June 22nd, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

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Japan vs. Brazil, Dortmund, 21:00 CET
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THE BIG PICTURE
Brazil are through, and Japan need a big win and a draw (coupled with Australia not winning) to join them. Expect Japan to go for goals since they have no other option and Brazil to counter without mercy.

Scout Report – Brazil
Brazil are through, Brazil are winning, Brazil are yet to concede, but Brazil are still failing to impress. It’s possible that Parreira will change the line up slightly and give the likes of Juninho and Robinho more of a game here, though he’s suggested he’ll start Ronaldo again. This Ronaldo thing is getting bigger with each game. More than any other big name player, he needs to put in a decent performance and ward off the circling vultures. Maybe he could try moving?

Scout Report – Japan
Still toothless up front, it’s a lot to ask Japan to beat Brazil by a big scoreline. Japan will be without captain and defender Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, who is suspended after collevting two yellow cards. Midfielders Nakamura and Nakata have been in decent form, creating some nice passing moves that ultimately go nowhere. Goalkeeper Kawaguchi looked impressive against
Croatia, but he may need to be even better today.

Teams: Likely formation; shirt numbers, name, caps, goals

Japan (4-4-2): 23-Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (91-0); 21-Akira Kaji (44-1), 22-Yuji Nakazawa (52-9), 19-Keisuke Tsuboi (34-0), 14-Alex (74-5); 8-Mitsuo Ogasawara (52-7), 7-Hidetoshi Nakata (76-11), 17-Junichi Inamoto (63-4), 10-Shunsuke Nakamura (62-16); 9-Naohiro Takahara (43-17), 13-Atsushi Yanagisawa (58-17) Coach: Zico

Brazil (4-4-2): 1-Dida (88-0); 2-Cafu (147-0), 3-Lucio (52-2), 4-Juan (40-2), 6-Roberto Carlos (129-10); 5-Emerson (74-1), 11-Ze Roberto (81-5), 8-Kaka (36-10), 10-Ronaldinho (68-30); 9-Ronaldo (100-62), 7-Adriano (36-23) Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira

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Japanese die on the fourth of the month more often than any other dates.

The two most common last names in Japan is Sato and Suzuki.

Watermelons in Japan can cost up to $100.

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Brazil

Brazil is the only country to have played at all 18 World Cups.

160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world’s widest road.

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

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http://www.geocities.com/thetropics/3416/errors_and_myths_about_brasilia.htm minhoca

MYTH BUSTED: The Avenue of 160 lanes

In some places the Monumental Axis is considered “the largest avenue of the world”. Yet, when you take a good look at it you realize it is not that large at all. The Monumental Axis could, in fact, be considered as two separate avenues of 6 lanes each.

At least two web sites (website 1 – website 2) even say “The world’s widest road is the Monumental Axis in Brazil, where 160 cars can drive side by side.” This is totally crazy!!!

http://www.geocities.com/thetropics/3416/errors_and_myths_about_brasilia.htm
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/goldenmama5/ gasmama

Strawberries sold in a supermarket look like clone ones. Those which don’t look like peas in a pod are rejected.
http://brazil.worldcupblog.org Zé

Minhoca: true. I was just about to post that.

I don’t know how that myth ever appeared, but it doesn’t make any sense. The monumental axis is just a normal avenue/road.
http://brazil.worldcupblog.org/group-f/japan-countdown.html Japan countdown – FIFA World Cup 2006 – Brazil World Cup Team Blog

[...] Brazil plays Japan in about 7 hours, see the preview here. Parreira didn’t give any hints on the squad formation yet, said he’d only announce it immediately before the game – this probably means he’ll try some changes, because he usually says he’ll just use the main squad with no mistery. On the other side, Zico is pretty much serious about the game and wants Japan to win. [...]
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croatia got second ahhahaha japans U OUT GOING HOME BCITHES
randy

I don’t know, japan might win.

HAHAHAHAHAH yeah right, them bitches ARE going home