Ferencvaros in Japan
　The Japanese national selection team won its second victory in one year against a first-class European club, when it beat Ferencvaros of Hungary early in September. The Hangarians had won the second match 3-1, after a first match draw of 2-2, losing the third 1-3 in Hiroshima. Japan's first victory was against visiting Coventry City of England in June.

　Ex-Professional
　A Japanese-Brazilian, who wanted to play for a Japanese league club, caused some confusion at high level. Sergio Echigo, who had previously been registered as a professional for the Brazilian Corinthians of Sao Paulo, came to Japan last August, by the invitation of a Japanese league club, Towa-Fudosan of Utsunomiya city. Although he had already been released by his former club, the Japanese League withheld official permission to register him with Towa, because the Japanese Football Association has never recognised 'non-amateur' players. Up to press, the Japanese F.A. is still considering the matter.

　The Significance of International Friendlies
　 "Friendly and Exciting !" was the headline of one of the sports newspapers in Japan, reporting the international friendly match between Japan and South Korea at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on September14th. It was the first full international match played in Japan against an Asian country which was not a championship competition. In the past Japan has played against South Korea 24 times, but in fact those games were in the preliminaries of the World Cup or in the championship competitions in foreign countries like Merdeka Tournament in Malaysia.
　The match was played in a downpour and watched by some 15,000 enthusiastic spectators. In the first half, the home side was rather aggressive and Kunishige Kamamoto scored the first goal of the match in19 minutes. Then in the second half, came back the Koreans. They scored two goals in the 48th and 65th minute, and definitively led 2-1 when the big stadium clock stopped. It was then in the injury time that the Japanese scored the equalising final goal through their ace striker, Kamamoto.This was without doubt an exciting match, with spectators waving flags and shouting in the heavy rain. While many Korean residents called 'Igyola, Igyola!' which means 'Fight on, Fight on others replied with 'Cha, Cha, Cha, Nippon ! Cha, Cha, Cha, Nippon !'.
　To see such enthusiasm at Wembley would not be strange, but this is in Tokyo. Usually, Japanese spectators act as if they were at a concert hall, but this time they were obviously stimulated by the occasion.

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