Urawa Red Diamonds

The Urawa Red Diamonds (Japanese浦和 レッドダイヤモンズ, Urawa Reddo daiyamonzu ), often short Urawa Reds (浦和レッズ, Urawa rezzu ) called, are a Japanese football club from the district of composite Urawa Saitama community. In the 2010 season, the club plays in the top division of Japan, the J. League Division 1

  • 5.1 National
  • 5.2 International
  • 8.1 Japan
  • 8.2 foreign

Predecessor clubs

In 1950, as Japan's football has been dominated by university teams, was founded in Urawa Naka - Nihon Jukogyo Sakkā -bu, the company sports group of Naka - Nihon Jukogyo, a company based in Kobe, which by in breaking the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu GHQ was born. Two years later, companies and factory team have been renamed and it was the Shin- Kobe Mitsubishi Jukogyo Sakkā -bu. 1958 moved the team to Tokyo and was established in 1964 in Mitsubishi Jukogyo Sakkā -bu ( engl. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Football Club ) renamed. In 1990, the team at Mitsubishi JIDOSHA Kōgyō ( engl. Mitsubishi Motors ) has been transferred and hence was called Mitsubishi JIDOSHA Kōgyō Sakkā -bu before 1992, transforming the team into an independent company.

Thus, the club is older than most of his colleagues in the J. League, most of which were established around 1970. When, in the course of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964 in Tokyo football became more popular and the companies discovered the sport as an advertising platform, the club was expanded. As a result of this work was Mitsubishi with four championships and four Emperor's Cup victories 1969-1982 the dominant team in the country. It is worth mentioning that the club finished the Championship 1969-1978 for ten years in a row on one of the top two spots.

Naming

When in 1992 the decision was made to establish a professional league, Mitsubishi had the lead role though assigned to teams like Yomiuri or Nissan, but was nevertheless a founding member of the J.League. Like other clubs, the club also put on a new, western -inspired name: Urawa Red Diamonds. On the one hand you made ​​reference to the owner Mitsubishi, its logo consists of three red diamonds, by the colloquial nickname Reds and play clothes with red jersey, white shorts and black socks are also referred to the top English club Manchester United.

Organization

In 1992, the team was founded in its current form as a limited company: The KK Mitsubishi JIDOSHA Football Club (株式会社 三菱自動車 フットボール クラブ, kabushiki - gaisha Mitsubishi JIDOSHA futtobōru kurabu ) is one of more than 50 % Mitsubishi JIDOSHA Kōgyō to five percent Prefecture and Saitama City; the remaining shares are held by 27 companies. In Board ( torishimariyakukai ) sit three representatives from Mitsubishi JIDOSHA Kōgyō, the Lieutenant Governor of Saitama and the mayor of the city Saitama (April 2010).

History

Transfers from Germany

After Urawa had finished the first three J. League semi- series respectively as the last, which at that time not yet led to the decline since the league was continuously increased, two world champions were committed from 1990 1994 with Guido Buchwald and Uwe Bein, which too quickly favorites of the public league advanced. After a year later with Holger Osieck a German coach has also been contracted, it was briefly athletic uphill. After leg, Buchenwald and Osieck left the club again, put again a decline that neither signing Michael Rummenigge still able to stop the new coach Horst Koeppel. In the 1999 season, the club finally got down in the second Japanese league.

Resurgence and first successes

Despite the descent, the fans remained loyal to the Red Diamonds; the club scored in the 2000 second division season a higher average attendance than any first division. According to the Direct resurgence Urawa reached in newly built World Cup stadium in Saitama on the opening day of the 2001 season, the highest number of visitors in the J.League history. In the 2003 season, the Red Diamonds with the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup could finally win their first title since the introduction of the J.League. In addition, the club in 2002 and 2004 was also in the final of this cup.

Climb to the top club

With the return of Guido Buchwald as manager for the 2004 season, the Red Diamonds were finally able to definitively establish at the top of the Japanese club football. With the win, the return series of the 2004 season, the club was able for the first time to qualify for the championship final, but lost it against Yokohama F. Marinos. For the 2005 season the previous separate scoring of return round was abandoned with a final finale of the two winners for the title of the J.League and replaced by an ordinary championship round with round-trip games. Also under the new mode were again runners-up behind the Red Diamonds Gamba Osaka; Moreover, they won at the end of the season by a 2-1 win against Shimizu S-Pulse the Emperor's Cup.

Double and Champions League victory

In the 2006 season the Red Diamonds finally succeeded in winning the Japanese championship against Kawasaki Frontale. In addition, the club defended at the end of the season by a 2-1 final against Gamba Osaka the Emperor's Cup. After three doubles the previous club FC Mitsubishi was the first double win of the Red Diamonds. Buchwald left the club after the season and new coach Holger Osieck was again.

Under him, the Red Diamonds finally achieved the greatest success in their history, as you could see the AFC Champions League win in the 2007 season. In the finals they defeated Sepahan Isfahan in Iran with 1:1 and 2:0. This Urawa also qualified for the first time for the FIFA Club World Cup, where the team was eliminated in the semifinals against eventual champions AC Milan and ultimately finished third. In the J-League, the club missed the title defense when they lost against the fixed relegated Yokohama FC 0-1 on the final day and was intercepted by the Kashima Antlers.

Since 2008

After two days of the 2008 season, where you could pick up a single point, the coach Holger Osieck was sacked. His successor was the former assistant coach Gert Engels. The season included the Red Diamonds finally starting in seventh place. For the 2009 season a German was again engaged as trainer with Volker Finke. Finke has signed a two year contract and finished the season with the club in sixth place. As Finke joined as sports director for the 1 FC Cologne in February 2011, Željko Petrović took over the team.

Achievements

(up to 1992 as Mitsubishi Urawa FC; since 1992 as Urawa Red Diamonds )

National

  • Japanese soccer champions: 1969, 1973, 1978, 1982, 2006
  • Emperor's Cup: 1971, 1973, 1978, 1980, 2005, 2006
  • Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: 2003
  • JSL Cup: 1978, 1981 ( shared with Toshiba)
  • Japanese Super Cup: 1979, 1980, 1983, 2006
  • Second division champions: 1990

Internationally

  • AFC Champions League: 2007

Coach Chronicle

Squad of the Season 2011

Other well-known players

Japan

  • Japan Masahiro Fukuda
  • Makoto Hasebe Japan
  • Japan Masami Ihara
  • Japan Yuichiro Nagai
  • Japan Masayuki Okano
  • Japan Shinji Ono
  • Japan Kazuo Ozaki
  • Takahito Soma Japan
  • Japan Koji Yamase
  • Naohiro Takahara Japan
  • Japan Hajime Hosogai

Foreign countries

  • Brazil Edmundo
  • Brazil Marcio Emerson Passos
  • Brazil Washington
  • Burkina Faso Wilfried Sanou
  • Germany Uwe Bein
  • Germany Guido Buchwald
  • Germany Uwe Rahn
  • Germany Michael Rummenigge
  • France Basile Boli
  • Croatia Tomislav Marić
  • Russia Yuri Nikiforov Valeryevich
  • Spain Txiki Begiristain
  • Turkey Alpay Özalan
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