Pele's Campaign for Youth
　 "King" Pele of Brazil, who retired from the Santos team, began his world-wide football campaign for youth in Japan in late November. He stayed a week in Japan and conducted soccer training sessions in Shimizu, Tokyo and Hiroshima.

　Kamamoto's New Records
　Kunishige Kamamoto, who scored his 100th league goal on Oct. 20, has established more records in the Japanese Soccer League. He scored his 17th goal of the season on Nov. 4 and thus established a new record for the number of goals scored by one player in a season. The previous record was 16, set by Kamamoto himself in1970.
　Kamamoto scored goals in 8 successive games. This new league record being established on Nov. 10.

　Success for a Foreign Coach
　The victory of the Yomiuri Football Club in the second division of the Japanese League last season demonstrated the initial success of the sports club system in Japanese football and also the extent to which a foreign coach contributed to this success.
　The Yomiuri Club was founded in 1969 as a sports club open to anyone who wanted to join the club and use its facilities. The founders wanted to run the club in the same way as sports clubs are run in Europe-an countries and they also hoped to create a professional football team in the near future.
　However, the realization of this dream did not come easily. Franz van Balcom became the manager-trainer of the Club during its most difficult period just after it was established.
　Van Balcom was born in Holland and played for football clubs in Holland and Australia in the 1960s. When he gave up his career as a player because of a knee injury, he had the intention of becoming a coach. In Australia, he met Mr. Dettmar Cramar who was visiting there as an F. I.F. A. instructor in charge of a coaching course.
　At Mr. Cramar's recommendation, Mr. van Balcom went to West Germany to get a license as football coach. He was working for a school and an amateur club near Koln (Cologne) when he received an invitation from unknown Japanese club.
　On his arrival in Tokyo in June, 1972, he found four training-fields covered with fine turf and small wooden club house in the suburbs of Tokyo, all intended for his football team. However he could find no real players, but only a group of poor young boys. One of the problems of the Yomiuri Club at that time was to gather good players for the team because the talented players in high-schools and universities wanted to join the big company teams where they believed their salaries would be guaranteed and they would be offered jobs when their football careers came to an end. The only players the Yomiuri Club could get were young students and graduates who could not join the big companies in the first division.
　Franz van Balcom has trained there young people for two and a half years and boosted his team to the top of the second division, ahead of even some big company teams. "We have been successful in the second division but I know that we shall have more problems to solve in the future. However, as you know, our boys are still very young. They were the youngest of all the League club players. This means that our boys will be able to make much more progress than might now be imagined." The first foreign coach of a Japanese football club is obviously optimistic about his future duties.

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