Vissel Kobe

Vissel Kobe (Japaneseヴィッセル 神戸, Visseru Kobe ) is a Japanese football club and since 1997 a member of the J. League, Japan's top professional league. The club from Kobe ( Hyogo Prefecture ) has its origins as most Japanese professional clubs in the factory team an industrial group. Today he is an independent corporation, the KK Crimson Football Club (株式会社 クリムゾン フットボール クラブ, kabushiki - gaisha kurimson futtobōru kurabu; engl Crimson Football Club, Inc.. ).

Club history

In 1966, the club, which is now known as Vissel, as Kawasaki Seitetsu Mizushima soccer bu founded in Kurashiki ( Okayama Prefecture ). In 1987, the name to Kawasaki Seitetsu Soccer- bu ( engl. Kawasaki Steel Soccer Club ) was shortened. The owner, the large steel company Kawasaki Steel, forced the rise of his team in the national top class but less committed than many other competitors and it was until 1993, when the J. League was founded, never in the top amateur league ( Japan Soccer League ) surfaced.

As then introduced J. League and their new Japan Football League ( JFL ), missed Kawasaki barely promotion to the JFL. This eventually succeeded in the following year since the league was expanded from 10 to 16 teams. In the summer of 1994 was eventually renamed in Vissel Kobe. The artificial word Vissel is composed of the English terms victory ( victory ) and vessel (ship) and should connect the success of the claim club management with the maritime tradition of the seaport Kobe. As a cow mascot was chosen ( a reference to the butcher Group Ito Ham, one of the main supporters of the club ) with captain's cap and the first club crest was decorated with a sailing ship.

The happiness that had been missing Kawasaki 1993, overtook Vissel 1996, only a year after the Great Hanshin Earthquake devastated the city in large parts and the whole region was plunged into crisis. Although the rise in the first division at rivals Honda Hamamatsu had failed, this inclusion in the J. League, however, was denied ( officially for economic reasons, but it keeps the rumor that committed in the J. League engine maker Toyota ( Nagoya had Grampus Eight ), Yamaha ( Júbilo Iwata ) and Nissan ( Yokohama Marinos ) thwarted the rise Hondas ), and so moved by Vissel.

Since 1997 Vissel has left the upper house only once. The association, ( built in 1985 ) in 2002 from Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium into the new World Cup arena " Kobe Wing Stadium " (now Home's Stadium Kobe ) moved, could never properly established and has never had a season finished in the top ten. Despite many high-profile players ( primarily be mentioned here Kazu Miura, the Cameroonian Patrick M'Boma or the Dane Michael Laudrup ) never took the team a national title and was ranked mostly on the edge of the descent, as well as back in 2005 when we as severed table had for the first time they went up the aisle in the second division, founded in 1999. In 2006 they returned, however, the same back to the House of Lords.

Current squad

As of June 29, 2011

Coach Chronicle

Former notable players

  • Switzerland Thomas Bickel 1995-1997
  • Japan Kazuyoshi Miura 2001-2005
  • Turkey İlhan Mansız 2004
  • Cameroon Patrick M'Boma 2004-2005
  • Czech Republic Pavel Horváth 2004-2006
  • Czech Republic Ivo Ulich 2005
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