blog for people from abroad about Fukui Prefecture in Japan.
This is 9.98 Stadium.
August/23/2020
Fukui United FC is an amateur soccer team in Fukui Prefecture. The team was created last year and has been trying to get into the professional leagues (collectively called the J. League). There are no professional soccer teams in Fukui.
Last year the team became the 2019 champion of the Hokushinetsu Football League, but they lost in the Japan Regional Football Champion League and couldn’t get into the JFL, which is the top amateur soccer league.
September/15/2019
Fukui United FC is an amateur soccer team from Fukui Prefecture that was just created this January. They’ve been trying to get into the J. Leagues, which are the professional leagues.
You may not know much about the J. Leagues, but a lot of the world’s star soccer players have played in them, like Zico, Dunga, Leonardo, Schillaci, Lineker, Dragan Stojković , Mboma, Forlán, Michael Laudrup, and Stoichikov.
July/31/2019
Today, I watched some sumo matches in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture. Between the main sumo tournaments, sumo wrestlers go to rural towns and hold exhibition matches for a day at a time. It was the first time I’d ever watched sumo live.
Sumo is well known around the world, so you may know something about it. However, the history of sumo and the meanings of the sumo wrestlers’ motions aren’t as well known.
April/7/2019
“We’d like to build a soccer team that embodies the hopes of Fukui.” The president of the company who manages Fukui United FC said this to the supporters before today’s opening match at the stadium.
Saurcos Fukui has disappeared, and a new soccer team, Fukui United FC, was born this January. Most of the players who played for Saurcos Fukui play for Fukui United FC.
October/3/2018
Today I went to Mikuni, Fukui Prefecture, to watch the final soccer game of the National Sports Festival, which is the biggest annual sports event in Japan. This year’s festival was held in Fukui Prefecture for the first time in 50 years.
In the male soccer section, the Fukui team got through to the final. Fukui would face Tokyo.
August/26/2018
Today I went to Mikuni to watch a soccer game with Saurocos Fukui. This was my first time seeing a game of Saurcos Fukui. Saurcos Fukui is an amateur team, but they’re trying to get into the J League, which is a professional league.
I got on the tram at 9:16.
I got on an Echizen Railway train at 9:48. This railway is unique and well known because there are attendants on the train. They sell tickets, provide information about tourist spots and help elderly people get on and off the train.