Soc: Japan's Maeda admits to "not trying" at Asian Cup camp

AAP Sports News (Australia), June, 2007

> AAP Sports News (Australia) 06-29-2007 Soc: Japan's Maeda admits to "not trying" at Asian Cup camp TOKYO, June 29 Reuters - Striker Ryoichi Maeda has jeopardised his place in Japan's Asian Cup squad by putting club before country at this week's training camp. The Jubilo Iwata forward, who has recently recovered from knee surgery, admitted he did not train flat out because of this weekend's crunch J-League game with champions Urawa Reds. "I didn't try very hard at Japan's training," Maeda was quoted in Friday's Nikkan Sports daily. "There was my knee to think about too and the main thing was our game with Urawa." Japan coach Ivica Osim's decision to start the training camp a day early upset several J-League clubs and only 10 players turned...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research

 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement
Click Here