Middlesex Wanderers here
　Middlesex Wanderers, the British amateur selection team, visited South Korea and Japan in late April. They lost two matches against the Korean national side in Seoul and scored a win and a draw against the Japanese selection in Tokyo. These matches were a rehearsal for the Koreans and Japanese who will meet each other in the World Cup preliminary competition taking place in Seoul in mid-May,

　Latin-American Japanese playing here
　Seven Latin-American Japanese are now playing for Japanese league clubs and one club has announced its plan to set up a ‘talent farm’ in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
　Half a million Japanese immigrants are living in Brazil, a country famous for its football throughout the world. However, the football activities of the Japanese community were unknown to the mother country before Yanmar Diesel of Osaka engaged a young Brazilian Japanese from Sao Paulo in 1967. Nelson Yoshimura came to Japan that year as an employee of the Brazilian factory of the Yanmar Diesel company to study at the head office in Osaka. Since the last half of the 1967 season, Nelson has been playing for the Yanmar club and has helped them to win the Emperor's Cup twice and the league title once with his brilliant Latin-American style footwork. 　The Japanese Football Association persuaded him to acquire Japanese nationality and he is now playing for the Japanese national team in the World Cup preliminary tournament.
　Nelson's success stimulated the owner of the Yanmar club to invite two more Brazilian Japanese to Japan. George Kobayashi came here in 1971 and Nelson Yamamoto in 1973. These two players had been colleagues of Nelson Yoshimura in the YAMADA Club in Sao Paulo. The Yamada team, which is made up of Japanese immigrants, is not registered with the local association and only plays friendly, matches. In addition to the Brazilian-Japanese, the Yanmar club accepted two other foreign players: Dorbal Carlos Estebes, the first negro ever to play for a Japanese club, in1968, and Antonio George Trinca, a Brazilian-Italian, in 1973.
　Two other clubs followed Yanmar's lead in 1972. Yomiuri F.C. of Tokyo invited George Yonashiro from the YAMADA club in Sao Paulo and Towa-Fudosan of Utsunomiya city took on two Latin-American Japanese, Sergio Echigo, who was playing for Corinthians of Sao Paulo until four years and Carlos Matsuda, an amateur from Lima, Peru. Sergio Echigo became the first ex-professional to play in Japanese football. In 1973 Towa added another Brazilian-Japanese, Seihan Higa, to its team.
　The sensational announcement to purchase the YAMADA club of Sao Paulo was made recently by Towa-Fudosan. Mr. Akira Fujita, the owner of Towa-Fudosan, said that he had established a new football club in Sao Paulo based on the YAMADA club. The name of the club was changed to "A. E. TOWA" of Sao Paulo. "A new football stadium is now being planned for the new club in Sao Paulo. We hope that our club will be admitted to the local league as professionals in the future," said Mr. Fujita. "Although our Japanese club cannot supply players to the local Brazilian team, our Sao Paulo club will be able to co-operate in the development of closer relations with Japanese football."

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