Japan soccer team lost to South Korea team. Surely South Korea soccer team is strong, but this team lost to China team. Japan team was the 3rd. It is humiliating.
Japan soccer team is weak, and so this team is the 3rd in the East Asian soccer championship. I think that Japan team will lose every game in the World Cup Soccer in South Africa.
I think that Japanese players are not young, that is, fresh and young players are not used. This team lacks spirit.
Maybe results of Japan team will not satisfactory to us in the Winter Olympic Games of Vancouver. What is the cause? Is it a temporary phenomenon?
I think that the Japanese society also lacks spirit now. Someone said a cloudy sky on a hill. Even now we have continued to go up a hill. We should not stop halfway.
Is it a momentary rest of Japan? I hope so, and I believe that Japan will get spirit again in the near future.
A friend of mine commentates on baseball. During the Sydney
Olympics he was chatting with some of the Korean journalists
and they said, it was more important for Korea to beat Japan
than to do well in the competition.
I don't think the Japanese teams have that level of passion and
rivalry, and I think you're the better for it.