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SANFRECCE
HIROSHIMA
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Sanfrecce Hiroshima is a J. League team.
The team name comes from the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian
word frecce or 'arrows'. This is based on the story of Mori Motonari who
told his three sons that while an arrow might be easily snapped, three
arrows would not be broken and urged them to work for the good of the clan
and its retainers.
The team's home town is Hiroshima, Hiroshima and plays at Hiroshima Big Arch
and Hiroshima Perfectural Stadium. It practices at Yoshida Soccer Park in
Akitakata, Hiroshima and Hiroshima 1st Ball Park.
The team was a former company team of Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club in 1938. The
name change was made at Mazda SC Toyo in 1980. It joined J. League in 1991.
It was the first team to win a stage championship to fall to J2 league. It
fell on 2002 and managed to comeback in a year placing at the 2nd on 2003
season in J2.
Titles
1994 - J. League 1st stage championship
Current Stars
Kazuyuki Morisaki
Koji Morisaki
Ri Han-Jae (now North Korea national football team)
Former Players
Tatsuhiko Kubo
Noh Jung-Yoon
Tore Pedersen
César Sampaio
Takuya Takagi
Marcus Tulio Tanaka |
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