Chilean Team visits Japan
　Union Espanola de Chile made a tour of Japan last January, winning three matches against the All Japanese Selection in Tokyo and Kobe. It is the first time ever that a Chilean team has visited this country.

　Carlos returns Home
　Dorbal Carlos Esteves, the only Negro player in the Japanese League, returned to Brazil after four years' service with Yanmar Diesel of Osaka. Five other South Americans are still for Japanese clubs, but they are all 'Nisei' (foreign-born Japanese) players.

　More than Two Thousand
　The number of High School teams to compete in the National Inter High School Championship in the preliminary round has reached 2,358. The Urawa City High School team won the title, beating the Fujieda Higashi in the final on Jan. 7th in Osaka.

　Red Flashes from North Korea
　A High School football team from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea(North Korea) visited Japan last January, and Japanese spectators saw an example of the football which so surprised the spectators during the World Cup in England in1966.
　The visiting Pyong Yang Light Industry High School team won all five games against Japanese High School team in Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and Tokyo. All the games were one-sided affairs and the Koreans scored a total of 19 goals in the five games against Japan's 3. The number of Goal Attempts was 140 by the Koreans and 19 by the Japanese. We could not help but notice the vast difference in standards between the two countries.
　To some extent the Japanese High School players suffered from the age difference. Because of the difference in school systems, the North Korean team was composed of players under 21 years of age, while the Japanese boys were all under 19. Obviously this two-year gap proved a serious disadvantage to the Japanese. However the results of the game were not influenced by this factor alone. A Japanese High School coach admitted that even if his boys had been two years older, they would have fared no better. Superior technique, tactics and physical fitness counted much more than age difference alone.
　Generally, the North Korean High Schoolboys mounted their attacks from the middle distance and maintained speed and pressure throughout the game.
　Their attacks were as fast and strong as flashes of lightning so that one Japanese journalist called the team the "Red Flashes" matching the colour of their strips.
　 These features of North Korean football were the same as had been reported during the World Cup of 1966 in England, when the North Korean national side defeated the favorites Italy to advance to the quaterfinals. In fact, the assistant coach of the Pyong Yang High School team was Mr.Ha Chon Won who had played as a centre half in the World Cup in 1966. He said North Korean football had developed a unique style of play to make the most of the physical constitution and spirit of the Korean People.
　Undoubtedly, Japanese High School football will be strongly influenced by the North Korean style of play in the future.

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