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A special feature on the 20-year anniversary of the Duha tragedy, featuring interviews with international players, coaches, and news crews from that year, and now, years later, Japan's soccer team.
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This story. This article was published in TOKKA's column on Nov. 29, 2013.
〈Wen:Osullivan〉For supporters of Japanese soccer, the Duha tragedy is an event that needs no mentioning, or rather, one that they don't want to talk about any more, and as October 28th this year marks the 20th anniversary of the Duha tragedy, let's take the opportunity to look back on it.
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After the match, sitting on a sofa in the lobby of the Al-Ahly Stadium, Saburo Kawabuchi (who was the chairman of the Japan Football Association's strengthened committee and is now the top advisor and president of the J-League) did not say a word, and the journalists who surrounded him seemed to be swallowed up by the silence around him, and the Japanese people that night were overwhelmed by the inexpressible loss of their ticket to the World Cup.
The Japanese team almost achieved the 1994 World Cup
advancement
Qualifying, just 30 seconds short of being topped with the tying goal, and suddenly all dreams are dashed.
Going back a little, in the spring of 1993, Japan returned from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first phase of the World Cup Asian side tournament in high spirits, and the next week, the J-League was officially opened, and the players, not yet recovered from the tired body and mind, were then involved in the frenzy of professional sports, in order to finally
preliminary competition
During the J-League's rest period, 27 rounds of matches were played before the beginning of September, and it was like rolling around in a quagmire for a few months, as former Urawa player Masahiro Fukuda, who is known as Mr. REDS, recalled "
Even if the physical trainer says you shouldn't play again, how can you say you want to rest in that atmosphere?
" Goalie Matsunaga founded said "
Anyway, no.
League success doesn't work. One game at a time.
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You have to do everything you can to move the audience.
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This mood was also translated into the elements of that last fatal corner kick: physical and mental exhaustion.
1 10.15 Saudi Arabia
2 10.18 Iran
3 10.21 North Korea
4 10.25 South Korea
5 10.28 Iraq
It's going to be a five-game final.
preliminary competition
Another concern was the left back, where Toshifumi Tochinami, who used to be able to play well with Chira Miura and Ramos Rukui (the first naturalized foreign player), was injured in the middle of the year, and Ooft, the Japanese team supervisor, was unable to find a suitable replacement for him. In the end, the first two matches of the preseason, Miura Tainen (Miura Chiryo's brother, currently the supervisor of the Tokyo V), who started the first two matches of the preseason, was constantly being beaten by the back of the ball, and the two matches of the weak offense and defense, with one draw and one loss, Ooft Japan ranked at the bottom of the list.
Before the tragedy, what was supposed to be a great, great show...
Ooft made a change in formation and personnel changes for the third game. Fukuda and Miura Tainen were benched, and Katsuya Shouyan, who was used to roaming on the right side of the field, took over the left back position. The effect of his and Hasegawa Kenta's inputs fermented, together with Miura Chirashi and Nakayama Masashi's activeness, they firstly beat North Korea 3:0, and then four days later with Miura Chirashi's decisive bullet, they beat South Korea for the first time in the World Cup preseason (1:0).
The South Korean media is calling it another day of national humiliation since the merger of Japan and South Korea.
). Two wins, one draw and one loss, in turn, led the way with Saudi Arabia on points 5.
(Japan-Korea merger: 1910)
(The Korean Peninsula was incorporated into Japan's territory and Japan annexed what is now North and South Korea in 2007.)
Then comes the fateful October 28th.
The session's final
preliminary competition
After the first two matches, the staff of TV Tokyo, who was in charge of broadcasting the fifth match, was immersed in the atmosphere of "it might be a digestive trial", and was ready to go back to their home studio to record the match if they lost the third match to the North Koreans again. But no one expected to see two victories in a row, and the winner was South Korea, and the door to their first World Cup finals was not far from their eyes...
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