++ [ originally posted by Jun-hide
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Ah, you forgot, Nakamura's freequick specials. They are often too hot for the goalkeepers to handle.

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Nakamura is probably most popular football player amongst decent football fan in Japan. Nakata is mainly loved by people because of his style, media hype and (bit of but not much) bad boy image.
Beside, Nakata doesn't seemed to be interested in our NT games.

BTW, Takahara is also pretty decent player. And I like Kikuchi for our under 19s. He is a class midfielder.

Actually, our under 19s in general is pretty good. Finished 3rd in Toulon tournament behind Italy and Brazil.