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Look at the depth of their talent compared to ours. They look very strong this season. I can only speculate on how they are accomplishing with the limited size of their country.

Hello Japan,

Greetings from Macau.

I was as surprised as you are to see us win by so much with only TIE, did you use normal as well in the previous game against England?

We are a small country but lucky to still managed 40-50 players at any one time. Again I'm surprised at countries like yours and Korea do not have more players given your population (Macau pop: 500,000 -- I thought we all like pc games and like basketball, look at China, Taiwan and Phillipines). So we don't have many trainees, and as you can experience yourself, quite a struggle. This is my 4th season as U21 manager and it's only now that we have 2 or 3 really decent players. It's still a long struggle.

Good luck rest of the tournament.

PS. Are you the same Japan U21 manager 3 seasons ago when we play at the Asian Championship 1st round?

太保
(Macau U21 manager)

Another match, my player Mitsuo (with 19 years old was the 2nd best player in the II.1, and 20 years old MVP of II.1) was the star! I'm very happy for that, but he is only Allstar and it is very probably that in a short time, he will stuck.

He has a very good secondaries, but i am going to train more his secondories, thank you for your advice :)

As discussed on seperate thread, I have posted the current team depth chart. Please go to the team page and read the latest log post: (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/53/jnt/overview.aspx)

Thanks....Now that is what makes you a great National team manager. Someone giving you a suggestion and you putting it to action. Nicely done.

The U21 season has now come to an end and our team finished with a record of 3-5. This included winning 3 of our last 4 games. We had a tough start to the season and I was pretty concerned with the talent on our team, but the efforts of our managers to continually improve our players and to always keep game shapes high eventually helped us turn the corner and have a strong finish.

I'd like to thank the managers of our graduating Seniors for their contributions to the team over the past couple seasons.

Masatomo Saiki - Mythical Man-Mouth
Kenya Mizuno - Antowns Finest
Takahiko Okada - 工研人
Daisaku Kawaida - *Kyoto Shogun
Naoto Kanesaka - S-f 29 team
Kyuji Ueshima - Shikoku Otaku
Mitsuo Shibukji - Sapporo Fighters
Takuro Ayabito - Terry Bogard


Now that we are in the off season we will start recruiting some new players for the team. There are a few specific players I already have in mind but feel free to send me a BB-mail if you want me to take a look at your player as well.

I started focussing this season on the development of players for our National Team. This means an emphasis on brining in Hi-potential talent early so long as their is obvious focus on training as well as an emphasis on wuality BIGS to try to fill the need their on our NT.


If you hadn't noticed I did post an updated depth chart for the latest game on the U21 blog page. When we have our next scrimmage we will get our first look at how that shapes up without the exiting Senior class.

I'm trying to make a regular (weekly?) updates of the U21 press blog. This will contain the updated depth chart as well as any other comments on what's going on with the team. There may be some weeks I'm not able to get to it so don't kill me if I don't do it every week.

Do you want me to post a notice here when I've made a post or does everyone find it on there own?

You can find the latest here: (http://www.buzzerbeater.com/country/53/jnt/overview.aspx)

Hey. you are doing a great job and if you run again, you have my vote..

Same as YC, Taiyo. Said it to you before, I'll say it again: keep it going man!