January 16, 2006
GET IN!!!!
Anyone who has been reading for a little while will know that I play football. The Saitama Jets, founded in 1996, is a decent team of fairly competitive Japanese lads and assorted foreigners. We have played in the All-Japan ALT Soccer tournament since 2002, and seen it grow into a huge competition. This weekend was the national finals at Saitama Stadium, where the best teams from east and west Japan meet to battle it out for the title of national champions. As you can probably guess from this picture, we won!!!
Not only that, we beat our rivals, last year's champions, Ni-Ni-Niigata in the final.
Can you hear Niigata sing? No, nooooo.
Can you hear Niigata sing? No, nooooo.
Can you hear Niigata sing? We can't hear a , er....single...thing....
Well done lads
リベンジ (n) revenge; determination of a loser to win the next time
Hell Yeah!!!!
Congrats! The biggest congrats that I can give 'textually'!
There will be worldwide celebration over this championship.
Posted by: Will at January 16, 2006 04:06 PMWhoa, Daddy, that's Big! Congratulations!
Posted by: nils at January 17, 2006 02:03 AMwhat no goal by goal run through of the greatest triumph in the Jets history?
Farthing and I were on the losing side of a mid-table battle in the second division of the intermidate level of the Southern Amateur League, so could do with some glory to read about...
Omedeto!
Posted by: Lord T at January 17, 2006 02:24 AMVery well done and congrats to the team from all of us.
Don't forget my t-shirt Gary,then you can say you've got
supporters all over the world.
Tom
Thanks for being a sportsman (Tom plays for former champions Niigata, who had beaten us 4 consecutive times before this game).
Will,
Hopefully we can meet at the Jets 10-year reunion, if it happens...
Donners,
Oh it's coming, don't you worry (do you think I would miss an opportunity to big it up?) Check the Jets homepage sometime soon. I could start about my matchwinner in the quarter-finals, but I don't want to spoil the excitment!