Defunct Japanese Football Clubs - Yokohama Flugels, Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C., Nkk F.C., Alo's Hokuriku, Rij? Sh?ky?-Dan (Paperback)

Chapters: Yokohama Flugels, Sagawa Express Tokyo S.c., Nkk F.c., Alo's Hokuriku, Rij? Sh?ky?-Dan, Sagawa Express Osaka S.c., Tosu Futures. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yokohama Flugels Yokohama Furygerusu) 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. 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. They were promoted to the JSL's Second Division in 1984 and immediately made an impact, being promoted to First Division as runner-up. Despite being relegated at the first attempt in 1985, they bounced back up again in 1987 and would never leave the top flight until their demise. The club's name springs from the German word Flugel, meaning wing or wings ("Flugels" is an anglicised plural, where the original German word 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 Flugels, 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 1980s 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 sp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=572462