{"id":91425,"date":"2017-09-16T01:25:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/memorable-moment-sawa-comes-to-japans-rescue.html"},"modified":"2017-09-16T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T01:25:17","slug":"memorable-moment-sawa-comes-to-japans-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/football\/memorable-moment-sawa-comes-to-japans-rescue.html","title":{"rendered":"Memorable moment: Sawa comes to Japan\u2019s rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As a universe of football depends down to a exhibit of the\u00a0FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup France 2019\u2122\u00a0official button and aphorism \u2013 in Paris on 19 Sep \u2013 we are counting down a 10 Most Memorable Moments in FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup history.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The background<\/strong><br \/>\nIn subordinate for Germany 2011, Japan confirmed their record of carrying seemed during each FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup. Only once had they left past a organisation phase, however, during Sweden 1995, where they went out in a quarter-finals. <\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Nadeshiko<\/em>\u00a0arrived in Germany usually 3 months after a trembler and tsunami that had ravaged a vast partial of their homeland. As their captain Homare Sawa acknowledged, they had other things on their minds aside from football: &#8220;We weren\u2019t accurately in a right support of mind to play.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Japanese pulled together, however, and played some pleasant football that took them into a final opposite USA, hold in Frankfurt on 17 July. Two-time champions, a absolute Americans were sloping to win. Japan took them to additional time, however. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why so special?<\/strong><br \/>\nWith 3 mins of additional time remaining and a USA heading 2-1, a Japanese forced a corner. Aya Miyama took it, promulgation a low round in towards a nearby post. Making a darting run opposite a American defence, Sawa got to it first, flicking a round first-time with a outward of her right foot to send it fizzing into a behind of a net. That late strike buoyed a Japanese and deflated a USA, who missed 3 spot-kicks in a ensuing shootout \u2013 dual of them saved by Ayumi Kaihori \u2013 as a <em>Nadeshiko<\/em>\u00a0prevailed 3-1 to join a name rope of universe champions. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What she said<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe American players are unequivocally high and it\u2019s unequivocally formidable to opposite that, so we motionless to conflict a nearby post during that final dilemma kick. My initial thought was to bombardment a round and see if any of my team-mates could get on a finish of it. That idea altered my career, and we don\u2019t unequivocally consider I\u2019d be means to repeat it. It\u2019s a best idea I\u2019ve ever scored.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Relive Japan\u2019s delight on video, and <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">click here<\/a> for some-more on this ancestral moment.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/development\/news\/y=2017\/m=9\/news=memorable-moment-sawa-comes-to-japan-s-rescue-2907914.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a universe of football depends down to a exhibit of the\u00a0FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup France 2019\u2122\u00a0official button and aphorism \u2013 in Paris on 19 Sep \u2013 we are counting down a 10 Most Memorable Moments in FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup history. The background In subordinate for Germany 2011, Japan confirmed their record of carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-91425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-fifa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}