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JUBILO IWATA
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Júbilo
Iwata is a J. League team. The team name Júbilo is taken from the word
Giubilo or 'delight' from Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian.
The team's home town is Iwata, Shizuoka and plays at Yamaha Stadium. It
practices at Okubo Ground in Iwata and Iwata Sports Park Yumeria.
The team had started out as a company team of Yamaha Motor Corporation in
1970 and joined J. League at the end of 1992. It finished at the 2nd place
of JFL 1st division in 1993 and was promoted to the J1 league on 1994. The
team welcomed Marius Johan Ooft as its manager as well as the Brazilian
national team captain Dunga, and number of foreign players to build a
winning team. Dunga's football philosophy deeply influenced this club
initially as a player and currently as an advisor. Since 1997, it has won
nuber of titles by relying Japanese players instead of foreign players who
may be gone in the middle of a season. On 2002, the team won championship of
both stages for the first time in the J. League history.
The team leader is Masashi Nakayama who is affectionally called Taicho, lit.
captain and Gon.
Titles
1992 - Japan Football League 1st division championship (as the company team)
1997 - J1 2nd stage championship, J1 championship
1998 - J1 1st stage championship, Nabisco Cup championship
1999 - J1 1st stage championship, J1 championship, Asia Club Team
championship, Asia Super Cup championship
2001 - J1 1st stage championship
2002 - J1 1st stage championship, J1 2nd stage championship, J1 championship
2003 - Emperors Cup
Current Stars
Choi Yong-Soo
Toshiya Fujita
Gral
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi
Masashi Nakayama
Hiroshi Nanami
Cullen Robert
Former Players
Dunga
Geraldo Vanenburg
Dimitri Radchenko
Salvatore Schillaci
Naohiro Takahara
Aleksandar Zivkovic |
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