2009 Squad

2009 Squad
1: GK Norihiro Yamagishi
2: DF Keisuke Tsuboi
3: MF Hajime Hosogai
4: DF Marcus Tulio Tanaka
6: MF Nobuhisa Yamada
7: MF Tsukasa Umesaki
8: MF Alessandro Santos
10: MF Robson Ponte
11: FW Tatsuya Tanaka
12: DF Shunsuke Tsutsumi
13: MF Keita Suzuki
14: MF Tadaaki Hirakawa
15: FW Sergio Ariel Escudero
17: FW Edmilson
18: MF Takafumi Akahoshi
19: FW Naohiro Takahara
20: DF Satoshi Horinouchi
21: DF Takuya Nagata
22: DF Yuki Abe
23: GK Ryota Tsuzuki
24: FW Genki Haraguchi＊
25: DF Tetsushi Kondo
26: DF Mizuki Hamada
27: MF Yoshiya Nishizawa
28: GK Nobuhiro Kato
29: GK Koki Otani
30: DF Koji Noda
31: DF Masato Hashimoto
32: MF Yusuke Hayashi
33: MF Shunki Takahashi
34: MF Naoki Yamada

Urawa Red Diamonds

Team Name: Urawa Red Diamonds
Home Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 & Urawa Komaba Stadium
About: Urawa Red Diamonds is a professional football club playing in Japan's football league, J-League. Its hometown is the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture. The club has enjoyed mixed fortunes since the J-League advent. The club finished bottom of the league for the first two seasons of the J-League with an average crowd of under 15,000. In 1999 they suffered relegation to the second tier of Japanese football yet again. The team has since improved in form in recent years, starting with a 2003 victory in the Nabisco Cup. In 2006 Urawa clinched their first professional league title by defeating runners-up Gamba Osaka 3-2 on December 2 before 63,000 supporters. This came after two close calls in the previous two years. In 2005, they finished 2nd, one point behind champions Gamaba Osaka. In 2004, they finished 3rd in the First Stage and won the Second Stage. Having qualified for the two-match J-League championship decider, they lost on penalty kicks to Yokohama F.Marinos.

About this blog:
This blog is an attempt by an Australian Urawa Reds supporter to keep everyone up to date with the happenings of the Red Diamonds. This probably wont be something easy seeing as that I can't read Japanese and most information about the J-League is in Japanese. But I will try my best...