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Japan s national women s team will take on Paraguay on April 8 in their first international match since last March, the Japan Football Association said Friday. Tenth-ranked Nadeshiko Japan and 47th-ranked Paraguay will play at Sendai s Yurtec Stadium for their first-ever meeting. Three days later, Nadeshiko Japan will play again at Tokyo s National Stadium against an opponent that has yet to be named. Asako Takakura s team will hold a training camp between March 17 and 31 in Kagoshima Prefecture as they step up their preparations for this summer s Tokyo Olympics. It will be their first activit.
Mar 10, 2021
In the decade since the Great East Japan Earthquake, the solidarity between J. League fans and the Tohoku region has been expressed in countless ways from banners stretched across stands to charity auctions and donation drives.
On Saturday, it came in the form of 5,000 servings of cup noodles delivered to Yurtec Stadium in Sendai each accompanied by a handwritten message from a Kawasaki Frontale fan or player to fans of Vegalta Sendai.
Such a gesture would have been unimaginable 10 years earlier. After all, even though their supporters were generally on friendly terms, the two teams had only contested the same division four times since joining the J. League in 1999.