Football
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- Team Roster
Head coach: Masakuni Yamamoto
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- Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paraguay | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 6 |
| Italy | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| Ghana | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | −1 | 3 |
| 12 August 2004 20:30 |
Paraguay | 4 – 3 | Japan | Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki Attendance: 5,381 Referee: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt) |
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| Giménez 5' Cardozo 26', 37' Torres 62' |
Report | Ono 22' (pen.), 53' (pen.) Ōkubo 81' |
Read more about this topic: Japan At The 2004 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)