With the entry team, costs Ogasawara own Ready

With the entry team, costs Ogasawara own Ready

TOKYO - if ever, Mitsuo Ogasawara still have very strong motivation to perform at the 2010 World Cup. If necessary, the important thing to get into the team, while he himself berongkos in South Africa.

The midfielder revealed that 31 years after scoring a goal and an assist is to help his team, which continued Kashima Antlers 3-1 Yokohama F Marinos cons on Saturday in J-League.

"I am aware, the weight for me (joining the team the World Cup)," he told local media. "But that does not mean no chance for me."

Ogasawara, who had appeared at the World Cup in 2002 and 2006, regardless of coach Takeshi Okada, as he again called in the Japanese national team in February. Even if this is the first time he has engaged in the team "Samurai Blue" over the last three years.

Supposedly less harmonious relationship between them is the coach cools again in the drive. Ogasawara criticized the team after a 0-0 draw against Venezuela in the match trial, and Okada told not to harass.

Japan in 2009 was the best player, who is now a subject of debate, when the coach Philippe Troussier on Shunsuke Nakamura at the 2002 World Cup has been postponed, said he did not want to go.

"I do not intend to give anything the core team," Ogasawara said the news agency Reuters. "But if I can get on the team to the only coating, I'm happy . I'm going to spend their own money to get there. "

Japan, which had never won a victory in the history of its participation in the World Cup outside their own countries meet, the Netherlands, Cameroon and the Danes into the group E in South Africa .