Team introduction

Kashima Antlers
JEF United Ichihara
Kashiwa Reysol
FC Tokyo
Verdy Kawasaki
Kawasaki Frontale
Yokohama F.Marinos
Shimizu S-pulse
Jubilo Iwata
Nagoya Grampus Eight
Kyoto Purple Sanga
Gamba Osaka
Cerezzo Osaka
Vissel Kobe
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Avispa Fukuoka

Kashima Antlers

Bebetto hold the victory key

Peek is　1996,19971998 season.
Then　Akita, Soma and Narahashi appear 98 France World cup.
And Hirase, Nakata(Koji),Motoyama, Ogasawara,Sogabata, and Yanagisawa were appeared
Young Japan 0lympic Qualifier game in 1999 for Sydney 2000.
Team suffer from switch from expert staff to younger member.

Key of This year is Brazilian Striker, "Bebeto".
I doubt his activity because His is old. But if he play an active part,
Kashima can win the victory.
And midfielder Kumagai , His success is second key of Kashima's victory.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Masaaki Furukawa
2.Akira Narahashi○
3.Yutaka Akita☆☆○
4.Fabiano Cesar Viegas■
5.Koji Nakata◎
6.Yasuto Honda○
7.Naoki Soma○
8.Bebeto(Jose Roberto Gama de Oliveira)○■
9.Tomoyuki Hirase◎
10.Bismark Barreto Faria☆○
11.Yoshiyuki Hasegawa☆○
13.Atsushi Yanagisawa☆○
14.Tadatoshi Masuda
15.Seiji Kaneko☆
16.Masashi Motoyama
17.Mitsuo Ogasawara
18.Koji Kumagai☆
19.Yoshiro Nakamura
20.Jo Nakajima
21.Daijiro Takakuwa
28.Hitoshi Sogabata

22.Ryuta Matsushima 23.Jun Uchida■ 24.Kenji Haneda■ 25.Takuya Nozawa■
26.Yuichi Nemoto■ 27.Kousei Nakamura■ 29.Shinya Kato

JEF United Ichihara

Fight Eisuke(Nakanishi)

Nakanishi is the utility Player.He was Defender(Stopper and Side),
but play Forward last year.
This year, He plays offensive Midfielder. And He loves This Team.
Team will be suffering this year. But I reinforce JEF.
And young member Abe ,Sakai and so on have been glowing.
They grasp the future.
☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)

1.Kenichi Shimokawa○
2.Eisuke Nakanishi☆○
3.Ichizo Nakata
4.Takayuki tyano
5.Satoshi Yamaguchi
6.Tomoyuki Sakai☆◎
7.Shinichi Muto
8.Yuki Abe☆■
9.Katsutomo Oshiba
10.Marcelo Baron Polanczyk
11.Nozomu Hiroyama
12.Tomonori Tateishi
13.Takenori Hayashi
14.Kazuhiro Suzuki
15.Hiroyasu Ibata■
16.Owusu Benson■
17.Ryo Kushino
18.Tetsumasa Kimura■
19.Shinji Murai
20.Ryohei Nishiwaki
21.Ovidiu Burca■
22.Yuki Inoue
23.Masataka Sakamoto■
24.Takuma Sugano
25.Hisato Sato■
26.Kohei Uchida
27.Hideomi Yamamoto■
28.Hirotaka Kobayashi■
29.Yuto Sato■

Kashiwa Reysol

They may cause great sensation like typhoon.

They had foreigner attacker,Stoichikov last year.But He was person
like the weather.Now This team become stronger than he was.
Hong Myung-Bo is No.1 Asian libero. He tell us enjoy of difense.
Other difenders are not well but violent.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Yuta Minami
2.Shigenori Hagimura
3.Norihiro Satsukawa
4.Takeshi Watanabe
5.Takahiro Shimotaira○
6.Tomonori Hirayama☆
7.Tomokazu Myojin◎
8.Drakukic Sasa■
9.Hideaki Kitajima
10.Harutaka Ono
11.Nozomu Kato
12.Naoki Sakai◎
13.Mitsuteru Watanabe
14.Masayuki Ochiai■
15.Makoto Sunakawa
16.Dai Sato
17.Shinya Ichikawa■
18.Tadamichi Machida■
19.Toru Irie
20.Hong Myung-Bo☆◎
21.Kenta Shimizu■
22.Motohiro Yoshida
23.Kensuke Negishi
24.Arata Sugiyama
25.Shinya Yabusaki
26.Taro Hasegawa
27.Shinya Tanoue
28.Keiji Tamada
29.Park Kun-Ha■

FC Tokyo

Their reinforcement is halfway in J1 league

From this year They are upgrade to J1 league .
Though They reinforce members ,it's difficult to win.
I think if you were not FC Tokyo supporter ,
FW (Tuto and Amaral)'s play is very interesting because
they make many shoot chance and miss.
And I wish Yukihiko's success in J1 League.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Hiromitsu Horiike
2.Naruyuki Naito■
3.Sandro(Sandro Chaves De Assis Roasa)
4.Mitsunori Yamao
5.Yoshinori Furube
6.Tetsuya Asano○■
7.Satoru Asari
8.Ryuji Fujiyama
9.Tuto(Livonir Ruschel)☆^^;;■
10.Kensuke Kagami
11.Amaral(Wagner Pereira Cardozo)☆
12.Osamu Umeyama
13.Koji Maeda■
14.Yukihiko Sato☆
15.Takuya Jinno○■
16.Toshiki Koike
17.Toru Kaburagi
18.Hayato Okamoto
19.Makoto Kita
20.Yoichi Doi■
21.Taishi Endo
22.Takayuki Suzuki
23.Tetsuhiro kina■
24.Masamitsu Kobayashi
25.Shinya Sakoi■
26.Takayuki Komine
27.Masatoshi Matsuda
28.Jyun Enomoto■
29.Mitsuhiro Toda■
30.Minoru Kobayashi
31.Daisuke Hoshi■
32.Arata Kasagi■
33.Hikaru Mita■

Verdy Kawasaki

This team is obstinate

Verdy was champion when J league was made in 1993.
Now Verdy is suffering gap from the past glory.
Kitazawa(he knew old Verdy) is the key person.
My favorite player is Nakazawa (His toughness ).

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Yoshinari Takagi■
2.Takuya Yamada
3.Yusuke Mori
4.Kentaro Hayashi○
5.Atsushi Yoneyama◎
6.Kazuyoshi Mikami■
7.Yoshiyuki Kobayashi
8.Tsuyoshi Kitazawa○
9.Hayato Yano■
10.Kim Hyun-Seog■
11.Teruo Iwamoto○
12.Kiyomitsu Kobari
13.Keiji Ishizuka☆
14.Yuji Hironaga
15.Koichi Sugiyama
16.Naoto Sakurai
17.Yoshihiro Nishida■
18.Nobuhiro Takeda○■
20.Kazuyoshi Iio■
21.Kenji honami○
22.Yuji Nakazawa◎☆
23.Shinya Osada■
24.Yosuke Ikehata■
25.Kazuki Hiramoto■
26.Kyohei Noda■
27.Seitaro Tomisawa
28.Kazunari Hosaka
29.Koya Shimizu
30.Jun Tanaka
31.Tatsuya Morikawa

Kawasaki Frontale

Reinforcement from Kashima Antlers and Alvarenga is The key.

They reinforce largely. But they lose in exercise game .
I think Coach use Nakanishi because he is the mental key man.
And Alvarenga is key man of play.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Takeshi Uragami
2.Eiji Takada
3.Hideki Sahara
4.Ryosuke Okuno■
5.Pedrinho■
6.Syuhei Terada
7.Toru Oniki■
8.Takayuki Suzuki■
9.Yasuyuki Moriyama○■
10.Majinho○■
11.Tatsuru Mukojima
12.Hideki Katsura
13.Naoki Urata
14.Tetsuo Nakanishi☆
15.Yoshinori Doi
16.Shinji Otsuka
17.Yoshimi Sasahara
18.Albarenga◎■
19.Akira Ito
20.Yasuhiro Nagahashi
21.Shinkichi Kikuchi○■
22.Yusuke Nakatani■
23.Tomoaki Kuno
24.Taketo Shiokawa■
25.Tetsuya Oishi
26.Shingo Ito
27.Kazuki Ganaha
28.Akira Konno■
29.Takumi Morikawa☆☆
30.Takumi Watanabe■
31.Jyunji Nishizawa

Yokohama F.Marinos

Marinos has Championship possibility. They need tenacity of victory.

Marinos members have high skill.
Especially Shunsuke is Japanese Magician like Rivaldo.
They need tenancy and If Ozzy Ardiress bring, They can take championship.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi◎
2.Jun Ideguchi
3.Naoki Matsuda◎
4.Yasuhiro Hato
5.Norio Omura○
6.Yoshiharu Ueno
7.Hideki Nagai☆
8.Yoo Sang-Chul
9.Atsuhiro Miura○
10.Shunsuke Nakamura☆◎
11.Takayuki Yoshida
13.Kunio Nagayama
14.Seiji Koga
15.Kazuhiro Murakami
16.Tatsuya Enomoto
17.Ryosuke Kijima
18.Akihiro Endo
19.Daisuke Tonoike■
20.Kazunari Okayama
21.Hideaki Ozawa
22.Go Kaburaki
23.Yoichi Mori
24.Shintaro Harada
25.Yohei Kurakawa■
26.Masayuki Onishi■
27.Masahiro Ohashi■
28.Naohiro Ishikawa■
29.Masahiro Fukazawa
Raul Horacio Maldonado

Shimizu S-pulse

They are Strong but had not changed from last year.

Their play of 2nd stage of 99 season are fantastic. But they don't have changed. I think it is severe to win the victory. anyway Their soccer is very fantastic .
☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Masanori Sanada○
2.Toshihide Saito○
3.Takuma Koga■
4.Kazuyuki Toda
5.Santos(Carlos Alberto Souza Dos Santos)☆☆
6.Katsumi Oenoki
7.Teruyoshi Ito◎
8.Alex(Alessandro Dos Santos)☆
9.Sotaro Yasunaga
10.Masaaki Sawanobori◎
11.Ryuzo Morioka○
12.Fabinho(Fabio Augusto Justino)
13.Kohei Hiramatsu
14.Tsuyoshi Tanikawa
15.Yoshikiyo Kuboyama
16.Nobuhiro Maeda■
17.Takayuki Yokoyama■
18.Hitoshi Matsushima
19.Shohei Ikeda■
20.Keisuke Hada
21.Keisuke Ota■
22.Yusuke Yoshizaki■
23.Kosuke Suzuki■
24.Takaya Kurokawa■
25.Daisuke Ichikawa☆○
26.Taijiro Kurita■

Jubilo Iwata

Champion is strong enough to victory

Champion team Jubilo is strong enough to victory though Dunga and Nanami leave.
Everybody have good skill. Fujita maintains good condition. Nakayama become weak
a little. But Takahara is glowing.
New face Ihara was "Mr. Marinos"for a long time.
His new challenge bring competition in Deffending Position.

1.Yushi Ozaki
2.Hideto Suzuki☆○
4.Masami Ihara○■
5.Makoto Tanaka
6.Toshihiro Hattori◎
7.Fumitake Miura
8.Daisuke Oku◎
9.Masashi Nakayama☆◎
10.Toshiya Fujita○
11.Kiyokazu Kudo
12.Tomoaki Ogami
13.Nobuo Kawaguchi
14.Takahiro Yamanishi
15.Masahiro Ando○
16.Hiroki Kobayashi
17.Naoya Saeki■
18.Norihisa Shimizu
19.Naohiro Takahara◎
20.Jo Kanazawa
21.Hiromasa Yamamoto
22.Yoshinobu Minowa
23.Takashi Fukunishi☆○
24.Ryoichi Maeda■
25.Yasushi Kita
26.Norihiro Nishi
27.Tomoaki Seino■
28.Shingo Kumabayashi■
29.Takahiro Kawamura
30.Roberto Ismail Torres Baez
31.Daisuke Matsushita■
32.Dimitory Radchenko○

Nagoya Grampus Eight

Favorite for the championship

If they win opening game, They will be the champion.
It is Pixy(Stojkovic)'s last year. You had better go to stadium and watch his play.
And goal keeper Narazaki is the key man.
They are strongest team in Japan now.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Seigo Narazaki☆◎
2.Seiichi Ogawa
3.Romildo Santos Rosa■
4.Kazuhisa Iijima
5.Go Oiwa◎
6.Motohiro Yamaguchi○
7.Tarik Oulida
9.Shigeyosi Mochizuki◎
10.Dragan Stojkovic☆○
11.Takashi Hirano◎
13.Kunihiko Takizawa
14.Masahiro Koga
15.Masayuki Omori
16.Seiji honda■
17.Yuji Miyahara
18.Kenji Fukuda
20.Ryuta Hara■
21.Tetsuya Okayama
22.Yasuhiro Tominaga
23.Hiroki Mihara
24.Hideaki Tominaga
25.Ryoji Ujihara■
26.Kohei Yamamichi
27.Masahiro Iwata■
28.Kenji Hata■
29.Jiro Yabe
30.Wagner Lopes○
31.Ko Ishikawa
32.Yoshitaka Kishikawa■
33.Taisei Fujita■

Kyoto Purple Sanga

It depends on Members from Flugels last year

When Yokohama Flugels become extinct, members in flugels was
join Sanga. It takes some time that they improve their ability.
Kazu come back to Japan from Croatia, and play well in Sanga last year,
he come back to national team, too.
He finished The best skill, but Sanga will need him.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Shigetatsu Matsunaga○
2.Hiroshi Noguchi
3.Tadashi Nakamura○■
4.Naoto Otake○
5.Edhinho Baiano■
6.Jin Sato
7.Kazuki Sato■
8.Fabricio Andre Pires■
9.Tomoaki Matsukawa■
10.Regis Fernandes Silva■
11.Kazu(Kazuyoshi Miura)◎
12.Masahiko Nakagawa
13.Makoto Atsuta
14.Yasuhito Endo☆
15.Kenji Miyazaki■
16.Teruaki Kurobe■
17.Kazuki Teshima
18.Hideo Oshima
19.Hiroshi Otsuki
20.Shigeki Tsujimoto
21.Naoto Hirai
22.Shinya Mitsuoka
23.Masato Kawaguchi■
24.Shinya Tomita
25.Daisuke Saito■
26.Daisuke Matsui■
27.Kentaro Yoshida
28.Hideaki Ueno■
29.Hiroyasu Kawakatsu
30.Masato Yamasaki

Gamba Osaka

The level of Young member become strong.
This team has good day and bad day.
I think Inamoto can play in Europe. He is No.1 Japanese Difensive Midfielder.
The key of this team is New face Kota Yoshihara and new foreigners.
And Head coach Hayano's baton.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Hayato Okanaka○
2.Shin Asahina
3.Takehito Suzuki○■
4.Noritada Saneyoshi
5.Tsuneyasu Miyamoto◎
6.Jyunichi Inamoto◎☆☆
7.Naoki Hiraoka
8.Hitoshi Morishita
9.Andradina■
10.Reginaldo Vital■
11.Hiromi Kojima
13.Kojiro Kaimoto
14.Takayuki Yamaguchi■
15.Masao Kiba
16.Takahiro Futagawa
17.Toru Araiba
18.Kota Yoshihara○■
19.Kohei Hayashi
20.Claude Dambury
21.Yoshiki Okamura
22.Naoki Matsuyo
23.Ryota Tsuzuki
24.Masanobu Matsunami
25.Shinichi Yamaguchi
26.Satoshi Nakayama■
27.Hideo Hashimoto
28.Koichi Hashigaito■
29.Masashi Oguro☆
30.Koichi Ae
33.Hiroshige Yanagimoto○

Cerezzo Osaka

Fan son hon goes back to Korea

Last year 2nd leg Cerezzo plays an active part.
But Fan son hon(Leading striker last year) goes back to Korea.
So I think that They are suffering.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Seigo Shimokawa
2.Masami Ogawa
3.Pericles De Pliveira Ramos
4.Kazuaki Tasaka○■
5.Shigeki Kurata
6.Yoon Jung-Hwan◎■
7.Takeo Harada
8.Hiroaki Morishima○
9.Akinori Nishizawa○
10.Noh Jung-Yoon○
11.Masaya Nishitani
12.Yasuo Manaka
13.Toshihiro Uchida
14.Satoru Suzuki
15.Daisuke Saito■
16.Daizo Okitsu■
17.Kazuo Shimizu
18.Takashi Uemura■
19.Naoki Mori■
20.Daisuke Miyakawa
21.Kazumasa Kawano
22.Tsutomu Fujiwara
23.Nobuki Hara
24.Syo Tojyo
25.Yuki Hiyama
26.Masahiro Momitani■
27.Michiharu Sugimoto■

Vissel Kobe

Reinforce from Verdy ,and Korean power

This team may be suffering this year.
Kurosaki and members from Verdy is the key.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Makoto Kakegawa
2.Keiji Kaimoto
3.Megumu Yoshida
4.Yukio Tsuchida
5.Choi Sung-Yong
6.Yuta Abe
7.Michiyasu Osada
8.Takanori Nunobe
9.Hisashi Kurosaki○■
10.Shigetoshi Hasebe
11.Mitsutosi Watada
13.Akihiro Nagashima
14.Shigeru Morioka■
15.Koji Yoshimura
16.Jiro Takeda
17.Ha Seok-Ju☆◎
18.Takashi Kojima
19.Masakazu Senuma☆■
20.Mitsutoshi Yabuta■
21.Shinya Ando
22.Jyunichi Kawamura
23.Tomo Sugawara■
24.Yohei Taniike■
25.Takehito Shigehara■
26.Naoto Matsuo
27.Kunie Kitamoto■
28.Kazuhiro Mori■
29.Yasuaki Oshima■
30.Fumiya Iwamaru■
31.Shimogaki Tatsuya■
32.Yuta Otsuka■

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Reasonable team, They can win to champion Candidate

It is difficult to get championship ,but they can win to
champion candidate.
Kubo,Chikara and so on are interesting player.
And foreigners are well for their sallary.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Takashi Shimoda
2.Hiroshi Miyazawa
3.Kentaro Sawada○
4.Hiroyoshi Kuwabara
5.Tetsuya Ito
6.Hayden Vernon Foxe◎
7.Hajime Moriyasu○
8.Makoto Okubo
9.Toshihiro Yamaguchi○
10.Tatsuhiko Kubo☆○
11.Chikara Fujimoto
12.Ryuji Kato■
13.Satoshi Koga
14.Yutaka Takahashi☆
15.Yusaku Ueno■
16.Shinya Kawashima
17.Kota Hattori
18.Tony Popobic◎
19.Kenichi Uemura
20.Kazuyuki Morisaki■
21.Hiroshi Sato■
22.Koji Morisaki■
23. Yuichi Komano■
24.Yuji Ishikawa
25.Kyohei Yamagata■
26.Yuki Matsushita■
27.Genki Nakayama■
28.Kosuke Yatsuda■
29.Sachio Yoshida
30.Kohei Miyazaki
31.Motoki Ueda
32.Miguel Simao■
33.Keisuke Kurihara■

Avispa Fukuoka

Fernando left for Avispa

Fernando left, Avispa's fight of this year is Hard.
For Avispa,
How to get victory point in every game is important
to remain J-1 league.
And they know it's importance.

☆:My Favorite ■:New Face
◎:National team member(now) ○:National team member(ago)
1.Hideki Tsukamoto
2.Shinichi Kawaguchi■
3.Masahumi Mizuki
4.Mitsuaki Kojima
5.Yasutoshi Miura○
6.Yoshiyuki Shinoda
7.Satoru Noda
8.Kiyotaka Ishimaru
9.Eduardo Ariel Bustos Montoya■
10.Daisuke Nakaharai
11.Pavel Badea○■
12.Yoshitaka Fujisaki
13.Takeshi Ushibana■
14.Yoshiteru Yamashita
15.Masaru Hashiguchi■
18.Tomoji Eguchi■
19.Daisuke Nitta
20.Katsuhiro Suzuki■
21.Takashi Takusagawa
22.Norita Ochiai
23.Takahiro Inoue
24.Tatsunori Hisanaga
25.Daiki Fukagawa
26.Sandona■
27.Kazuyoshi Matsunaga■
28.Takuji Miyoshi■
29.Michiaki Kakimoto■
30.Nobuyuki Kojima☆○
31.Takashi Maeda■
32.Syuji Hara■
33.Toshikazu Kato■
34.Tomoaki Komorida■
35.Kentaro Yano■
36.Masashi Uramoto■
37.Shinya Shirakawa■
38.Hiroyuki Ishida■
39.Takashi Hirashima■
40.Yoshifumi Yamada■