Sunday May 27, 2012

SOCCER

Japan officially pulls out of Copa America

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    Noripinhead

    It's fine, just as long as they don't pull out of Copa Cabana.

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    smithinjapan

    "But JFA technical director Hiromi Hara returned from Europe on Monday, saying that while the clubs sympathize with Japan, they could not release their players for what is a non-competitive tournament for the Asian champions."

    Rightfully so. It would be more fun and more competitive to have Japan there with the SAmerican teams, but such is life -- for a meeting with no importance I can understand why they wouldn't want to let the players go and risk injury (for which they would still have to pay contracts).

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