Omiya Ardija

Omiya Ardija (Japanese大宮 アルディージャ, Ōmiya Arudīja ) is a football club in the Japanese professional league J. League. The club from Ōmiya -ku, a city district of the resulting 2001 million city Saitama ( Saitama Prefecture), increased after the 2004 season as a table runner of the second division in the J. League on.

The name Ardija is the Spanish word borrowed art, there is, ardilla as much as squirrels. According to the rodent is also club mascot adorns the club crest and gave the team the ( slightly scary ) nicknamed " the mighty squirrel from Saitama ." This timidity is associated with the 2001 merger of the cities Ōmiya and Urawa Saitama, the Ardija made ​​to city rivals of the powerful Urawa Red Diamonds. Although the squirrels won the first Derby on 9 July 2005 surprising 2-1, they will have to make do with the role of small until further notice.

The club was founded in 1969 as a factory team in the telecommunications state-owned enterprise under the name of NTT NTT Kantō Soccer- bu (NTT関東 サッカー 部), English NTT Kanto Football Club founded and was almost twenty years, only in different regional leagues in the Kanto region active. By winning the championship all regional leagues in 1986 NTT succeeded in winning the only previous national title the following year, the club was promoted to the second division of the nationwide Japan Soccer League. But then stagnated the development of the association, which also has not changed, as NTT nachrückte in founding the J. League in the newly created Japan Football League. In its current form, the team was founded in 1998 as a limited company: At the NTT Sports Community KK (NTTスポーツ コミュニティ 株式会社, enu ti ti supōtsu komyuniti kabushiki - gaisha ) NTT Higashi- Nihon and other companies in the NTT Group are involved.

It was not until 1999, the second division of the J. League was founded, strengthened the Group to develop the new second division, which henceforth Omiya Ardija called. The squirrel should give the team the image of the sympathetic outsider: nimble, skillful and hardworking - as NTT wanted to present his employees. The commitment demonstrated success, and after five years on the fourth to sixth succeeded Ardija 2004 -awaited ascent to the top flight. 2007, it narrowly avoided relegation, as they finished in 15th place with three points ahead of Sanfrecce Hiroshima, and the 16th place, which would have meant relegation.

Coach

  • 2010 - June Suzuki
  • 2009-2010 Chang Woe- Ryong
  • 2007-2008 Satoru Sakuma
  • 2007 Robert Verbeek
  • 2004-2006 Toshiya Miura
  • 2003 Eijun Kiyokumo
  • Masaaki Kanno 2003
  • 2002 Henk Duut
  • 2000-2001 Toshiya Miura
  • Pim Verbeek 1998-1999
  • Norio Sasaki 1997-1998
  • Takashi Shimizu 1992-1996

Former player and well-known

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