Posts Tagged ‘Urawa Reds’

Group Harmony: Japan’s Fan Culture

By Mike Tuckerman • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Features

From the multitude of unofficial fan clubs that crowd the terraces to the carefully choreographed chants that ring out for ninety minutes, J. League fans have arguably borrowed as heavily from their native baseball league as they have from European and South American football culture. Michael Tuckerman explains.



Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part Two

By furtho • Dec 17th, 2007 • Category: World Football Culture

Editor’s note: This is the second part in a three part series by furtho looking at Omiya Ardija, a Japanese team living in the shadow of their near neighbours, the Urawa Reds. Read the first part here, which looked at Omiya’s remarkable promotion to the top Japanese division, a joy tempered as their inadequate stadium [...]



Love, Revolution and Architecture: a Year in the Life of the Squirrel Nation, Part One

By furtho • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: World Football Culture

Editor’s note: Urawa Reds spent the past week basking in the global spotlight at the World Club Cup, but there’s more to Japanese football than them as Furtho explains in part one of a three part series looking at “Squirrel Nation”.

The Derby
There’s half an hour to go before kick-off. Away behind one goal, a huddled [...]



The Flags of Urawa Reds, AFC Champions League Semi-Final

By Thomas Dunmore • Nov 4th, 2007 • Category: Video, World Football Culture

I would not like to take a penalty in front of Urawa Reds’ supporters at their Saitama stadium, myself. Watch this shootout from an Asian Champions League semi-final against South Korea’s Seongnam Ilhwa last week, and marvel at the spectacle of the giant flags. It’s really no surprise they won, is it?

(By the way, we’ll [...]