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  World Cup 2002 Venues: Yokohama
Yokohama is about 30 minutes by train from Tokyo, and the stadium is just a short train ride to the north of Yokohama City, easily acessible from a number of key train lines and expressways.
The beloved mascot of the now-defunct Yokohama Flugels
Yokohama Stadium is one of the few stadiums in Korea and Japan that was not built specifically for the World Cup.
www.wldcup.com /Asia/stadia/yokohama.html   (363 words)

  
 International Stadium Yokohama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The stadium has 73,237 seats, and was inaugurated in March 1998.
It is the home stadium of Yokohama F. Marinos of the J.
It hosted three first-round games during the Football World Cup 2002, and the final game between Germany and Brazil was played there on June 30, 2002 (the game was won by Brazil, 2–0).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Stadium_Yokohama   (197 words)

  
 Yokohama F. Marinos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The team is based in Yokohama and was founded as the company team of Nissan Motors.
It was originally the Yokohama Marinos but after merging with the Yokohama Flügels in 1999, it changed to its current name.
The team's home stadiums are International Stadium Yokohama and Mitsusawa Ballpark.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yokohama_F._Marinos   (229 words)

  
 J League Teams: Yokohama Marinos
The Yokohama Marinos rank as one of the traditional powerhouses of Japanese football, and have a long tradition of winning championships that dates back to their formation in the 1960s as the club team of Nissan Motor.
Yokohama had to fight off strong challenges from a host of contenders, but managed to win both stages of the 2003 league competition and emerge as uncontested champions.
Yokohama's talented defence remains a strong point, and so long as key players like Yuji Nakazawa, Naoki Matsuda and Yuzo Kurihara can avoid injury, Yokohama should at least be in the race.
www.wldcup.com /Asia/jleague/marinos.html   (1075 words)

  
 Sports Venue Technology - Yokohama World Cup Stadium, Japan
The city’s stadium is located 6km from the centre of the city and a short walk from both the Shin-Yokohama Station on the JR Shinkansen/Yokohama Line and from Shin-Yokohama Kita Station on the Metropolitan Subway.
Yokohama Stadium is one of the few stadiums in Korea and Japan that was not built specifically for the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan™.
Designed by a team of architects consisting of MHS with Tohata, the stadium was completed in 1997 and has hosted a number of key international matches, including the semi-final and final of the 2001 Confederations Cup.
www.sportsvenue-technology.com /projects/yokohama   (891 words)

  
 Planet World Cup - 2002 - World Cup Venues - Yokohama
Yokohama is a bustling city with a population of more than 3 million people, making it Japan's second largest city after metropolitan Tokyo.
Yokohama's modern history dates from 1859, when the port was opened to the international community.
Yokohama is continually working toward a better future and has set its sights firmly on the twenty-first century by pushing ahead with urban development.
www.planetworldcup.com /SPECIALS/yokohama.html   (439 words)

  
 World Cup 2002 Japan Venues & Stadiums
Access to Misaki Stadium is 10 minutes from Sannomiya Hanadokei Station to Misaki-koen Station on the new Kobe City Subway Kaigan Line or walk from JR Hyogo station or JR Wadamisaki (the branch line from JR Hyogo station operates mornings and evenings).
From central Yokohama to the International Stadium in Yokohama is 15 minutes by JR Yokohama Line or the municipal subway from Sakuragicho Station to Shin-Yokohama Station followed by a quarter of an hour walk to the stadium.
The final itself takes place at 8pm on 30th June at Yokohama International Stadium, the home ground of the J-League’s Yokohama F Marinos, a mere 40 minute journey from downtown Tokyo.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/archives/wc2002/fo/jv.html   (1544 words)

  
 WCFan.com: Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Once a small fishing village, Yokohama has blossomed into Japan's second largest city with a population of some 3.4 million over the past 140 years from 1859 when it was opened to the Western world as one of Japan's first international ports.
Yamashita Park is a one-kilometer stretch from Osanbashi along the waterfront that serves as an oasis for residents and tourists alike.
Yokohama offers more than 9,000 rooms, ranging from superdeluxe hotels with the highest standards of comfort and service, to inexpensive tourist-class accommodations.
www.wcfan.com /site/p8.html   (974 words)

  
 FIFA.com The Official web site of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association
Foreigners have very much been associated with Yokohama since the end of the Edo shogunate (1603-1867) and in 1859 the fishing village became one of the first to open its doors to outside trade.
Yokohama is considered one of Japan’s more football friendly cities and until 1998 when the Flugels were forced by bankruptcy into joining crosstown rivals Marinos, the city was home to two popular J-League sides.
Last season Yokohama F. Marinos claimed their second successive title and are now in the running for the AFC Champions League, which, if they won, would give them home advantage at the FIFA Club World Championship.
www.fifa.com /en/comp/Clubworld/tournament/0,6537,CWC-2005-23,00.html   (378 words)

  
 SI.com - Soccer - Kubo helps Yokohama clinch stage late - Saturday November 29, 2003 9:41AM
Yokohama, headed by former Japan national coach Takeshi Okada, finished top of the 16-team J-League table on superior goal difference, ahead of JEF United Ichihara which won 2-0 at Tokyo Verdy.
Iwata took the early lead in steady rain at International Stadium Yokohama when Rodrigo Gral converted a cross from Aleksander Zivkovic and fired into the bottom left-hand corner for his 21st goal of the season.
Yokohama goalkeeper Tetsuya Enomoto was sent off in the 16th minute when he shoved Gral, who had attempted to block his drop kick.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2003/soccer/11/29/bc.as.spt.soc.japan.roundup.ap   (309 words)

  
 World Cup 2002 - ABC Sport - Yokohama
A state of the art stadium, International Stadium Yokohama will host the 2002 World Cup final.
With a capacity of 70,000, the stadium is the biggest in use at the World Cup.
Yokohama has a long history as a port city and has a population of more than 3 million.
abc.net.au /worldcup2002/venues/yokohama.htm   (197 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Stadiums
But weak-stomached be warned: the deterioration of the stadium has been blamed, in part, on the fans' tendency to urinate without leaving their seats, as the ammonia-laced pee of more than 100,000 Brazilians can do some heavy damage to concrete over time.
International turmoil aside, Iran is still a safe and beautiful country to visit.
The point of pride for the Yokohama's designers is the pitch itself: despite its orientation in an indoor facility in the heart of Japan's second largest city, the grass on the field is completely natural, tended to throughout the year by a team of groundskeepers and an underground network of hot water pipes.
www.askmen.com /fashion/travel_top_ten/40c_travel_top_ten.html   (1092 words)

  
 Die Austragungsorte in Südkorea
Yokohama traditionally has been an international port, and to this day, the city shows evidence of its heritage in the many old Western-style buildings and cosmopolitan atmosphere.
Yokohama is the home of J. League team the Yokohama F. Marinos.
Construction of the 70,564-seat International Stadium Yokohama was finished in October of 1997, it is the largest stadium in the
www.fussballtempel.net /wm2002/yokohama.html   (266 words)

  
 Yokohama Japan Hotels: The Pan Pacific Yokohama Hotel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A city port, Yokohama is a cosmopolitan city with an abundance of attractions well worth visiting and within easy access of the Pan Pacific Yokohama.
Pan Pacific Yokohama is conveniently located in the Minato Mirai District 21 of Yokohama, which is packed with first-rate shopping malls and dining facilities.
Pan Pacific Yokohama is located in the trendy, new Minato Mirai 21 waterfront area of Yokohama, the international port city located 30 kilometres south of Tokyo.
yokohama.panpacific.com /hotel/location.html   (298 words)

  
 Yokohama, Japan. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Locals are proud of their city's international heritage, and there's definitely a cosmopolitan flavour to the place, with its scattering of Western-style buildings, Chinese temples and world cuisines, and its sizeable foreign community.
The stadium was opened in 1997, with seating capacity for 70,000, making it one of Japan's largest.
Though less boisterous than when the American GIs were passing through town on their way to the Vietnam War in the 1960s, Yokohama has no shortage of lively drinking holes.
www.hostelbookers.com /guides/japan/yokohama   (311 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet.com World Cup 2002: Venue: Yokohama
The venue for the World Cup final, International Stadium Yokohama has already staged a number of big matches since its completion in October 1997.
The home of J-League club Yokohama F-Marinos, the state-of-the-art ground seats 70,000 and is a 10-minute walk from the nearest station.
Yokohama can be reached in just 25 minutes from Tokyo by bullet train.
worldcup.espnsoccernet.com /venue?id=1273&lang=en   (100 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Sports
Yokohama’s first experience of Europeans came when silk merchants settled in the 19th century, a tradition hardly maintained when the most prosaic team in Germany’s history arrived for the 2002 World Cup final.
An unloved underdog then, Hamann returns to the Yokohama International Stadium on Thursday an hour south of here in rather different circumstances, playing for an increasingly attractive, hugely-popular Liverpool side in a Club World Championship semi-final against Deportivo Saprissa.
Maybe Liverpool will perform laps of honour at the Yokohama International Stadium waving the blue flag of Brussels wildly above their heads.
www.telegraphindia.com /1051215/asp/sports/story_5602592.asp   (410 words)

  
 Venues of FIFA World Cup 2002 - Yokohama - by La Cancha-News On World Cup 2002
Yokohama is Japan's second largest city after Tokyo, aboiut 20km from Tokyo, with excellemt transportation links.
Downtown Tokyo and Haneda Airport are only 30 minutes away by car, while the New Tokyo international Airport, known as Narita can be reached by rail in 84 minutes.
It used to be a small fishing village, but after being opened to the world in as one Japan's international ports in 1895, the city absorbed Western culture and civilization from international visitors, leading to the modernization of Japan.
www.lacancha.com /Venues_Yokohama.html   (100 words)

  
 Tensions boiled over at heated Asian Cup - The Boston Globe
Before Nakamura performed for the Italian club Reggina in an exhibition against Yokohama Marinos, spectators cheered for 25 minutes as he jogged around the Yokohama International Stadium field, welcoming him back from the Asian Cup final, in which Japan defeated China, 3-1.
The match was portrayed as a chance for China to avenge Japan's old colonial policies and brutal occupation of the 1930s and '40s.
A crowd of 60,000 at Workers Stadium in Beijing (except for the estimated 2,000 Japanese fans) reacted with hostility.
www.boston.com /sports/soccer/articles/2004/08/10/tensions_boiled_over_at_heated_asian_cup   (843 words)

  
 Japan, S.Korea 2002 Stadiums Still in Use
Despite dire predictions they would go to waste, the state-of-the-art stadiums built for the 2002 soccer World Cup are getting plenty of use four years after Japan co-hosted the tournament with South Korea.
The biggest source of revenue for most of the World Cup stadiums comes from the domestic J-League, where 26 of the 28 soccer clubs in both the first and second divisions reported a profit in 2005.
But naming rights were sold to auto giant Nissan in 2005 and the ballpark is host to the J-League's Yokohama F Marinos, one of the most popular teams in the top division.
www.happynews.com /news/5262006/japan-s-korea-2002-stadiums-still-in-use.htm   (666 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta
Germany?s goalkeeper Oliver Kahn during a practice session at Yokohama International Stadium on Wednesday.
Yokohama: Oliver Kahn will be determined to exorcise his World Cup demons on Thursday when Germany take on Japan in the first leg of their three-match Asian tour.
Kahn?s return to the International Stadium will give the 35-year-old the opportunity to shrug aside the disappointment he felt two years ago.
www.telegraphindia.com /1041216/asp/sports/story_4134930.asp   (330 words)

  
 January 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Traditionally, this competition takes place in Tokyo National Stadium; however, this year the match will be held in Yokohama International Stadium.
Following the conclusion of this match, the stadium will change its name to Nissan Stadium as Nissan Co. bought the naming rights last year.
The first appearance was in 1996 while they were still Yokohama Marinos and the second was in last year (2004).
home.comcast.net /~shuvrap/jleague/super_cup.htm   (310 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Japan thrills home fans with first Cup win   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
YOKOHAMA, Japan — Japan got its first victory in a World Cup as Junichi Inamoto scored his second goal of the tournament Sunday for a 1-0 win over Russia.
In the first game at International Stadium Yokohama, where the championship match will be played on June 30, the Japanese put themselves in a strong position to advance to the second round.
Atsushi Yanagisawa tipped a pass from the midfield to the open Inamoto near the front of the goal in the 51st minute.
www.usatoday.com /sports/soccer/cup2002/games/2002-06-09-japan-russia.htm   (343 words)

  
 World Cup 2002 Venues quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Kobe, a stadium situated in Japan is also known as the what stadium?
The full name of the Ibaraki stadium is the Ibaraki Kashima Stadium.
What was the name of the stadium which saw the match featuring Uruguay and Senegal?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=212674   (132 words)

  
 IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
The 2003 Super Meet will be held in Yokohama International stadium on 23 September, a national holiday in Japan.
The Super meet presents with such an opportunity, for in the women's 5000m, two young Ethiopian medallists from Paris, Werkenesh Kidane, the silver medallist at the 10,000m, and Tirunesh Dibaba, the gold medallist at the 5000m, are expected.
In the absence of Suetsugu, the Japanese national champion at the distance, Nobuharu Asahara who has the best of 10.02 at the 100m is the main Japanese.
www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=23259,printer.html   (941 words)

  
 TheFA.com - England LD's in World Cup Final.
England will play in the INAS FID World Championships Final at the Yokohama International Stadium on Sunday after a semi-final performance today, which Coach Jeff Davis described as 'awesome'...
England will play in the INAS FID World Championships Final at the Yokohama International Stadium on Sunday after a semi-final performance yesterday, which Coach Jeff Davis described as 'awesome'.
The victory was over a Russian side who had shown a great deal of promise prior to this match but now it is just Holland that stand in the way of World Cup victory.
www.thefa.com /England/DisabledTeams/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2002/08/22246.htm?WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublisheddefault.htm   (741 words)

  
 Hotels in Yokohama Japan - Pan Pacific Yokohama
The Pan Pacific Hotel Yokohama is located in the trendy / new Minato Mirai 21 waterfront area of Yokohama - the international port city 30km south of Tokyo.
The hotels international style of service and facilities cater to leisure visitors as well as groups and business travelers.
Hotel food and beverage facilities reflect the international flavor of the port of Yokohama by featuring a world of dining choices including Queen Alice for fine French cuisine - one of Japan's most famous chefs - Mr.
www.onetravelsource.com /11261264.html   (464 words)

  
 Ajays PES4 - Stadium Names
Here is a complete list of the default stadium names along with the real names translated.
I have also included the city at which the respective stadium resides and finally the relevant AFS codes.
The AFS codes will be particularly useful when used in conjunction with the stadium editing tutorial as you easily able to pick out which area of the AFS file you would need to modify in order to change a particular stadiums default graphics.
pes4.edgegaming.com /stadiumnames.html   (212 words)

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