Footballer of the year 1970　
　The Japanese Football Writers　Club has named　Aritasu Ogi　of Toyo Kogyo as the footballer of the year, 1970. Ogi was most impressive as a key defender of the National side at the Asian Games in Bangkok, and led Toyo of Hiroshima to win the league championship for the fifth time in 1970.

　Shimomura Retires.
　Mr. Yukio Shimomura, the manager of Toyo Kogyo F.C of Hiroshima, has retired from his position. After having been a famous goalkeeper in the National team, he was appointed manager of Toyo in 1965. His team has won the league championship five times in the last six years.　Mr. Shimomura explained that his company job was becoming to heavy for him to continue as a manager of the team, which he has been serving in a voluntary capacity.

　China and F.I.F.A.
　Since I wrote about the restart of Chinese sports activities in the last edition of this newsletter, Chinese initiatives have led to rapid developments. The table tennis teams of　the　United　States　and　some　other countries have been invited to Peking, and the Chinese are planning to send some sports teams abroad.? The time has come to welcome footballers from China, which has a population of seven hundred million, as friends of the whole world.　　　
　We, the Japanese Football Writers, have had two occasions to ask about the position of FIFA with regard to Chinese football. In 1962, Sir Stanley Rous visited Tokyo, and held a press conference (at the Hotel Okura on Sept.4.1962). At that time he mentioned the FA of the People’s Republic of China, which had withdrawn from FIFA in 1958, and explained that it would be possible for FIFA member countries to play against People’s China. Sir　Stanly said that People's China would become a FIFA member again in the near　future, and therefore the FIFA Exective Committee had decided to allow its member Associations to play against the Chinese.　　
　Four years later, we had another chance to meet Sir Stanly in Tokyo, on his way home from the fifth Asian Games in Bangkok. He reffered again to People7s China at a press conference (at the Hotel Okura, on Dec.ss,1966), starting that relation between FIFA and People’s China had not improved during the preceding four years, and that the attitude of FIFA had changed. The FIFA President explained, “Under the regulations of FIFA, no member Associations will be allowed to play a team of a non-affiliated Association,” One of us asked the President why he had made such aregulation, and he replied that FIFA was a ‘club’ whose members played football among themselves under common ‘laws of the Game’ The F.A. of the People’s Republic of China could become a member of FIFA, and the door was open for them to do so.
　Now is the　time　to　bridge　the gap. Although FIFA’s door is open the F.A. of People’s China, its seat has been occupied by another organization. The first thing FIFA must do is to clear this seat, as well as keeping the door open.

[Correction]
　 In my article entitled ‘CHINA, what shall be done’, in the lest issue of this newsletter, there was a misprint which, I am afraid, may have caused our readers some misunderstanding. The Phrase ‘two Chinas’ in the fourth paragraph should be replaced by the phrase ‘two organisations in China’. Anyone who reads the whole of my article can easily understand that I am opposing the concept of the so called ‘two Chinas’.

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