Yokohama Flügels
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| Full name | Yokohama Flügels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1964 (as All Nippon Airways FC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dissolved | 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Mitsuzawa Stadium, Yokohama (Capacity: 15,046) |
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Yokohama Flügels (横浜フリューゲルス Yokohama Furyūgerusu?) was a Japanese football club that played in the J. League between 1993 and 1998. In 1999 the club was officially merged with local rivals Yokohama Marinos and the two teams became known together as Yokohama F. Marinos.
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[edit] History
The club was originally the company team of All Nippon Airways and played in the Japan Soccer League, before it became a professional club and joined the J. League.
The club's name springs from the German word Flügel, meaning wing or wings ("Flügels" is an anglicised plural, which in the original German has only one form which can both represent singular and plural). The name points to the club's former sponsor. For a time it was billed as AS Flügels, with the initials of both sponsors, ANA and Sato Labs, forming an initialism that resembled the Italian initials for "Sporting Association" (Associazione Sportiva).
Despite never winning either the JSL or J. League title, they were top contenders from the late 1980's through its last game, and won several accolades at home and abroad, including the Emperor's Cup, the Asian Cup Winners Cup and the Asian Super Cup.
In 1998, Sato Labs announced that it was pulling its financial support of the club. However, instead of simply dissolving the club or finding another investor, ANA, the team's other chief sponsor, met with Nissan Motors, the primary sponsor of crosstown rivals Yokohama Marinos, and announced that the two Yokohama clubs would merge, with Flügels players joining the Marinos.
Although the "F" added to the new club name, "Yokohama F. Marinos" is meant to represent the merger of the two clubs, Flügels supporters rejected the merger. Instead, the supporter club followed the socio model used by FC Barcelona and founded Yokohama F.C., the first professional Japanese football club owned and operated by its members.[1]
On January 1, 1999, Flügels won their final match, the Emperor's Cup final against Shimizu S-Pulse, 2-1.
[edit] J. League results
| Year | Stage | Place | Pld | W | L | D | F | A |
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| 1993 | 1st | 7 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 21 | |
| 2nd | 7 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 30 | ||
| 1994 | 1st | 5 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 36 | 27 | |
| 2nd | 8 | 22 | 9 | 13 | 31 | 33 | ||
| 1995 | 1st | 13 | 26 | 9 | 17 | 42 | 54 | |
| 2nd | 11 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 57 | ||
| 1996 | 3 | 30 | 21 | 9 | 58 | 44 | ||
| 1997 | 1st | 2 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 35 | 16 | |
| 2nd | 11 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 27 | ||
| 1998 | 1st | 8 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 33 | 32 | |
| 2nd | 7 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 37 | 32 | ||
| Total | 228 | 117 | 111 | 375 | 373 |
[edit] Honours
[edit] Domestic
- JSL Division 2 (1): 1987-88
- Emperor's Cup (2): 1993, 1998
[edit] International
- Asian Cup Winners Cup (1): 1994-95
- Asian Super Cup (1): 1994-95
[edit] Former players
Yasuharu Sorimachi 1988-1993- Motohiro Yamaguchi 1990-1998
Jaime Rodríguez "Chelona" 1992-1993- Masakiyo Maezono 1992-1996
Edu Marangon 1993-1994
Moner 1993-1994
Raúl Vicente Amarilla 1993-1994- Evair Aparecido Paulino 1995-1996
- Naoto Otake 1991-1997
- Zinho 1995-1997
- Sampaio 1995-1998
- Yasuhiro Hato 1995-1998
- Seigo Narazaki 1995-1998
- Atsuhiro Miura 1995-1998
- Hideyuki Ujiie 1997-1998
Igor Lediakhov 1998- Yasuhito Endo 1998
- Kazuki Teshima 1998
- Shigeki Tsujimoto 1998
Paulo Futre 1998
[edit] See also
[edit] Trivia
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- In Japanese popular soccer manga Captain Tsubasa, one of the main characters Wakashimazu joined Flügels after he graduated from his high school.
[edit] References
- ^ Maurer, Harry (2000-12-11). "As Fans Build a Team of Their Own...Yokohama Readies for the World Cup". Retrieved on 16 January 2007.
[edit] Further reading
- Ultra Nippon: How Japan Reinvented Football by Jonathan Burchill, Headline Book Publishing Ltd., London: 2000 (ISBN 0747274770).
- Rising Sun News: J. League in 1998 - details the Flügels/Marinos controversy
- 78th Emperor's Cup playback : the Flügels' last challenge - Nippon Ganbare (French)
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