Pele to visit Japan
　F.C. Santos of Brazil will play one match against a Japanese Selection on May 26th.in the Tokyo National Stadium, in which world-famous star Pele will make his first and probably only appearance before Japanese spectators.

　Two League clubs visit S. E. Asia
　The Japanese League champions Yanmar Diesel of Osaka made a tour to Thailand and Macao in February and March, They played four friendly games against local sides, winning three and drawing one. Earlier in February, Hitachi F.C. of Tokyo visited Malaysia and Singapore, where they played five games, winning three and drawing one.

　Eighteen Years for Preparation
　How many of us could imagine twenty years ago the reality of manned flights to the moon, when suck ideas existed only in science fiction. Similarly, our present-day knowledge and imagination cannot enable us to plan for a time eighteen years from now. It might even be possible to hold the World Cup football tournament on the moon in 1990, which is the date when the event will probably be scheduled to be organized by the Japanese Football Association. The countries where the World Cup will be held in the next ten years have already been decided by FIFA. West Germany will be the organiser in 1974, Argentina in 1978and Spain in 1982.
　Concerning the twelve years following 1982, applications from Columbia, Japan, Peru and Yugoslavia have been received by the FIFA Executive Committee. Columbia is considered the most likely candidate for1986, so 1990 will probably be the earliest date when the Japanese Association will be able to organise the event.
　 Since the event will not be held on the moon, we must begin to make tentative plans based on up to date information and forethought. It is said that football stadiums of more than 100,000 capacity will be necessary in the future television age. Construction plans for such big stadiums should be the main item in car preparations during the next eighteen years.
　 We now have the National Stadium in Tokyo with a 75,000 capacity, which was constructed for the 1964 Olympic Games. This should be reconstructed for the World Cup event. There are two smaller municipal stadiums in Omiya and Yokohama. Both these cities are twenty miles from Tokyo, and both stadiums have a capacity of 17,000spectators and floodlighting facilities.
　 In Osaka, the second-largest city in Japan, we have a stadium of twenty thousand capacity, where the matches for the fifth to eighth places in the 1964 Olympic football tournament were played. Another football ground of 17,000 capacity with floodlights is in Kobe near Osaka. These stadiums should be reconstructed or enlarged for more spectators.
　 Fukuoka, which is the largest city in Kyushu in the far west of Japan, wishes to host the Asian Games in 1978, and is planning to construct new sports facilities in the near future. Some of these facilities will be available for football events. Hiroshima, home of five-times League champions Toyo Kogyo, is also planning a new football stadium, and Nagoya, the third-largest city in Japan, will have a new football ground too within the next several years.
　 We need not hurry to accomplish these projects, as we have eighteen years to prepare, but we should remember that the statistics concerning football stadiums based on our present ideas could be far from the reality of the situation in 1990.

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