Spandau 04 engages two Japanese internationals

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Spandau 04 engages two Japanese internationals

Δημοσίευσηαπό pzozef » Σάβ Σεπ 30, 2006 8:11 pm

Waterpolo is becoming a global sport more and more. Now German record champion Wasserfreunde Spandau 04 even engaged two Japanese internationals for the upcoming season. Shiota Yoshinori and Shoichi Sakamoto, both participants in the 2005 World Championships at Montreal, Canada, will take over the two positions for foreign players in the Spandau 04 squad. The four-time European Cup winner of the 1980s from Berlin already surprised earlier this week by the engagement of Nebojsa Novoselac, the assistant coach of the reigning World and European champion Serbia, as new head coach for the senior team.

“We just found them by random,” club president Hagen Stamm explains the pretty surprising deal of the Berlin club, which is aiming for the 27th national title this season. The two Japanese players are currently gaining international experience as students; now they are to play in the senior team of a EuroLeague participant. But Shiota Yoshinori and Shoichi Sakamoto will not be the only overseas players this season in Europe, i.e. two current New Zealand internationals, men's team captain Tim Grace and Lachlan Tijsen, are playing in the French league for Montpellier WP and DFC Sète.

Due to the isolated situation Japanese waterpolo is facing difficult conditions at home and in Asia, but made some progress in recent past. At the 2001 FINA World Championships at home in Fukuoka the team was still ranking 16th and last. Now the Japanese clinched the Asian throne, finishing 14th at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal. In 2003 the players form the Land of the Rising Sun narrowly missed the Qualification for the 2004 Olympic Games, when Japan narrowly lost to home team Kazakhstan at the continental qualification tournament in Almaty, but for 2008 the berth of the Asian continental representative has been give to the hosting nation China.
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