SOUTH AFRICA: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: WORLD CUP 2010: Japan prepare for opening match against Cameroon

Record ID: 455101

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: FOOTBALL/SOCCER: WORLD CUP 2010: Japan prepare for opening match against Cameroon
  • Date: 13th June 2010
  • Summary: MANGAUNG, FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA (JUNE 12, 2010) (REUTERS) SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS PLANE ON TARMAC JAPANESE SQUAD MEMBERS DISEMBARK SECURITY ON THE GROUND JAPANESE SQUAD MEMBERS DISEMBARK JAPANESE MEN'S SOCCER TEAM GET PRE-TRAINING TALK FROM COACH TAKESHI OKADA HELICOPTER HOVERING OVERHEAD TEAM RUNNING AROUND FIELD TANAKA MARCUS TULIO SITTING ON THE SIDELINES TEAM RUNNING AROUND FIELD IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION VARIOUS OF TEAM MEMBERS STRETCHING EXERCISING YANO KISYO (IN FRONT) AND TANAKA MARCUS TULIO (BEHIND) TRAINING NAKAZAWA YUJI RECEIVING ATTENTION FROM A TRAINING ASSISTANT WIDE SHOT OF PITCH WITH TEAM MEMBERS DOING DEFENCE AND PASSING EXERCISES TWO OF THE TEAM GOALKEEPERS TRAINING VARIOUS OF TEAM MEMBERS DOING DEFENCE AND PASSING EXERCISES
  • Embargoed: 28th June 2010 13:00
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  • Location: South Africa
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVA8PRLTTR3EGFLF1IKL3DUEXW97
  • Story Text: Just hours after landing in Mangaung, Free State, South Africa on Saturday (June 12), Japan's World Cup soccer squad held a training session.
    Making their fourth appearance in the FIFA World Cup, the team faces Cameroon in their Group E opener on Monday (June 14).
    Despite a poor record coming into the tournament with four successive defeats, coach Takeshi Okada's squad is hopeful that it will gain its first World Cup win on foreign soil on Monday.
    The Cameroon team arrives in Mangaung on Sunday (June 13).
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