NIIGATA (Kyodo) -- Out-of-favor Japanese international Kisho Yano has returned to his old nest at Albirex Niigata, the J-League first division club announced on Wednesday. The 27-year-old forward, a member of the 2010 World Cup squad, had been released ...
One player who believes he has benefited from a prolonged spell on the substitute's bench is Japanese forward Kisho Yano who has rejoined J-League club Albirex Niigata. The striker claims is he is returning to Japan a better player despite spending a ...
Fellow defender Tomoaki Makino has sought a season's refuge at Urawa Reds after a miserable year with FC Cologne, striker Kisho Yano has returned to Albirex Niigata from Freiburg, and a host of other players spent the final day of the European transfer ...
Joining Jorginho's side and Sapporo in Group B are Omiya Ardija, Yokohama F Marinos, Shimizu S-Pulse, Albirex Niigata and Vissel Kobe for the league cup competition starting March 20. The final will be on Nov. 3. In Group A, last year's finalists Urawa ...
Homare Sawa's side retained their cup crown with a comfortable 3-0 win over Albirex Niigata in the final. Despite a modest league campaign, Albirex upset league runners-up NTV Beleza in the semi-final. On the back of last year's successful FIFA Women's ...
So soccer has been good to me and I bear no grudge against it. But I have only one soccer team — Albirex in Japan, which plays in Niigata, the town in which my father was a port director during the occupation after World War II. Albirex draws better ...
Back in Asia, Michael Fitzgerald has been loaned to V-Varen Nagasaki from Albirex Niigata for the upcoming season. Nagasaki plays in the Japan Football League which is the third tier of the Japanese system. Fitzgerald played the 2010 and 2011 seasons ...
Das Team von Homare Sawa verteidigte den Titel im Pokalwettbewerb mit einem komfortablen 3:0-Sieg im Finale gegen Albirex Niigata. Obwohl Albirex in der Liga eher mäßige Leistungen bot, sorgte das Team im Pokal für eine Überraschung und besiegte im ...