Academy Report

Brazil expedition (9/2)

It's day 6 of our Brazil tour. In the morning, Kashima played a practice match against a local club at the Zico Center.
Kashima 4-3 CANT DO RIO
Goalscorers: Kiuchi, Sakurayama, Shimano, Iizuka
Squad: Magata, Umetsu, Kofuda (Taniguchi), Kiuchi (Okita), Minowa, Miyauchi, Shimano, Funabashi (Yanagimachi), Maeda, Sakurayama, Iizuka
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After the match, they also appeared on Zico's YouTube show, Canal zico10.
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In the morning, the Norte and Tsukuba teams went shopping at a supermarket next to the hotel. In the afternoon, they moved to a soccer field and facilities built by Mr. Jorginho for a practice match.

Mr. Jorginho built the facilities in front of the house where he grew up. With support from Nike and the government, local teachers provide free language and art lessons to children. They also lend out sports equipment, making it a place that gives hope and smiles to impoverished children. Currently, there are 600 children, and over 10,000 children have participated in activities to date.
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They were warmly welcomed with handmade national flags, welcome messages in Japanese, and a kids' escort ceremony.
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Practice Match
Match 1: Norte, Tsukuba combined team 5-0 Bola Para French
Goalscorers: Umehara, Horie, Nemoto, Yagi, Iida
Squad:
First Half: Terakado, Niitsuma, Otsu, Tada, Sekiguchi, Nemoto, Yagi, Sato Yu, Saito, Horie, Umehara
Second Half: Suzuki, Sato Daiji, Tokuyasu, Ouchi, Shimizu, Yamaguchi, Fujita, Takagi, Hashimoto, Shibata, Iida

Match 2: Norte, Tsukuba combined team vs. Luquisho
Squad:
First Half: Sato Daichi, Fujita, Nemoto, Otsu, Saito, Hashimoto, Shimizu, Sato Yu, Shibata, Umehara, Takagi
Second Half: Suzuki (Terakado), Tokuyasu, Sato Dai, Tada, Niitsuma, Ouchi, Yamaguchi, Sekiguchi, Yagi, Horie, Iida
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The monument was built by Mr. Jorginho in memory of a friend who died in a traffic accident when they were moving a wooden goal to replace it with an iron one, before Mr. Jorginho became a soccer player.
When Mr. Jorginho was 13, he looked out his window at a dilapidated field and decided to build a soccer field there.

Tomorrow's Schedule
All teams
AM: Watch the Japan-Brazil Friendship Cup Final, closing ceremony
PM: Return to Japan

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