On 21 December, the 2nd round matches of the Prince Takamado Trophy 26th All-Japan Youth (U-15) Football Championship took place. 

Pickup Match 1

Yokohama F・Marinos Junior Youth（Kanto3／Kanagawa）7-0（1st 2-0、2nd 5-0） Avancar（Chugoku2／Okayama）

The match between Yokohama F・Marinos Junior Youth（Kanto3／Kanagawa）and Avancar（Chugoku2／Okayama）, who join this Championship for the first time, took place at Hitachinaka Sogo Undo Koen Stadium. At first, Yokohama FM started well with their high playing skill whereas Avancar had to work hard in defense and to try to score by a quick attacks made mainly by ASANO Tatsuro. On 19 minutes, Yokohama FM’s HORI Kenta stole possession from Avancar and kept dribbling until the frontline to pass it to IWASAKI Shun who was in front of the goal and scored making it 1-0. After that, Yokohama FM scored their second goal and the 1st half finished with 2-0.

At half time, Avancar’s Head Coach UDA Tadashi encouraged the players to be more aggressive especially on the wings. However, Yokohama FM’s IWASAKI managed to push the ball forward after their corner kick and got the third goal on 42 minutes. Even after this goal, Yokohama FM added two more goals and which killed Avancar’s motivation. They kept scoring by TANAHASHI AKITO on 66 minutes and by URAKAWA Ruka on 73 minutes. In the end, YOKOHAMA FM won the match 7-0.

Match Detail

Pickup Match 2

Yokohama F・Marinos Junior Youth Oppama（Kanto6／Kanagawa） 1-1（1st 0-0、2nd 1-1、Extra1st0-0、Extra2nd 0-0、PK4-2） Kawasaki Frontale U-15（Kanto 5／Kanagawa）

Yokohama F・Marinos Junior Youth Oppama（Kanto6／Kanagawa）and Kawasaki Frontale U-15 had a very intense match at Hitachinaka Sogo Undo Koen A-Sports Field. Yokohama FM Oppama tried to score with its quick attacks whereas Kawasaki F made quick passing to break through the opponent’s defense, changing positions many times. On 21 minutes, YAMAYA Yushi of Yokohama FM Oppama came out of defense with vertical passing and striking a middle shot. After a short while, on 24 minute, Kawasaki F’s MIYASHIRO Taisei took a shot after short passing play. Both aggressive shots didn’t score and they finished the 1st half at 0-0.

In the 2nd half, Kawasaki F gradually pressured Yokohama FM Oppama but Yokohama FM Oppama responded to the opponent’s pressure with its strong defense. On 61 minutes, GOTODA Kouki, Yokohama FM Oppama created the opportunity which lead their first goal by passing the ball from the opponent’s half to YAMATANI who was in front of Kawasaki F’s goal. 8 minutes after Yokohama FM Oppama’s first goal, Kawasaki F also scored through passing work between MURATA Masaaki, OSONE Kota, and finally TAKAGISHI Kenshin to score. After this equaliser, the match was a see-saw game and they could not score additional goals at all in the remainder of normal time nor in extra time. Eventually, in the penalty shootout, YOKOHAMA FM Oppama got 4 goals and won this intense match, thanks to a good saving play by ARA. Due to this victory, YOKOHAMA FM Oppama has become one of top 8 teams of this Championship.

Match Detail

Comments

URAKAWA Ruka（Yokohama F・Marions Junior Youth）
This time, we could manage to relax in the match unlike the previous one. Personally, I stayed in the defensive midfielder zone to see what was going on and tried to calm down my teammates by passing more when they were too hasty in offense. Especially in the second half, the last defense line was higher so I thought we could get some scoring opportunities if we jumped out even from second or third line. Indeed, I am happy that I could score after running a long distance. Now we can move on to the quarter final, we really want to win this Championship.

UDA Tadashi Head Coach（Avancar FC）
Since it was our first national level match, we just wanted to have a good match experience today. YOKOHAMA FM’s skill was much higher than we expected. Even though we made some pressing defense to cause the opponent’s mistakes, they just fended this off by passing. We could anyway keep our play style and get to know how we are in the national level. Top national team targets our making mistakes and steal the ball to then making scoring opportunities. We have to learn that playing style and I want all of the senior players of my team to share with our junior players what we learned today.

TERADA Shuhei Head Coach（Kawasaki Frontale U-15）
Our players expressed what they wanted to do today. It was an interesting match and I am satisfied with their level of play. However, in this type of match we always have to get a good result and in that sense I should have done some things differently to get the result we wanted. Even though we kept the ball, we cannot win the match if we can’t score. This is what I learned today. I know that any player can get nervous at big matches; I thought that we need to improve ourselves as a team to keep our level of play high.

ARA Takafumi（Yokohama F・Marions Junior Youth Oppama）
Our defense kept persistent pressure on the opponent’s offense which tried to break through us with a lot of passing. I appreciate my team mates for their persistence because I didn’t need to work much as a goalkeeper. Their passing activities were very unreadable and I didn’t have much experience with opponent players who kept passing in front of me as much as they did. Indeed I felt “Oh, go on and shoot”. It was a challenging match but I could keep suggesting to my teammates from behind. I think our patience lead us to win the final penalty shootout.

JFA-TV　2nd Round Highlight

Game  Consadole Sapporo U-15 vs Kyoto Sanga F.C.U-15、Yokohama F･Marions Junior Youth vs Avancar FC、Yokohama F･Marions Junior Youth Oppama vs Kawasaki Frontale U-15、FC Tokyo U-15 Fukagawa vs Gamba Osaka Junior Youth

Prince Takamado Trophy All Japan Youth (U-15) Football Tournament

Saturday, December 20, 2014 - Saturday December 27, 2014
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