Kume Puts Pixie on a Diet?

Nagoya Grampus General Manager Kazumasa Kume seems to be putting his manager on a restrictive diet. Yes, the squad for 2011 is slightly stronger than that for last season, but there are only 29 of them. The addition of Jungo Fujimoto and Kensuke Nagai does improve the team, but the squad only contains four forwards. The lessons of 2009 have not been learned it seems. Both rookie Nagai and the speedy, but inexperienced Kuba are both likely to see quite a bit of action, if Tamada and Kennedy suffer any setback. (Indeed, we have seen Mu Kanazaki and Koji Hashimoto playing the centre forward role in practice.)

 

Pos No. First Name Surname DOB Age   GK 1 Seigo Narazaki 15/4/1976 35   GK 21 Koji Nishimura 7/7/1984 27   GK 50 Yoshinari Takagi 20/5/1979 32   GK 31 Toru Hasegawa 11/12/1988 23   DF 3 Mitsuru Chiyotanda 1/6/1980 31   DF 4 Marcus Tulio Tanaka 24/4/1981 30   DF 5 Takahiro Masukawa 8/11/1979 30   DF 6 Shohei Abe 1/12/1983 28   DF 23 Genta Matsuo 26/5/1986 25   DF 26 Tatsuya Arai 14/1/1988 23   DF 32 Hayuma Tanaka 31/7/1982 29   MF 7 Naoshi Nakamura 27/1/1979 32   MF 8 Jungo Fujimoto 24/3/1984 27   MF 9 Igor Burzanovic 25/8/1985 26   MF 10 Yoshizumi Ogawa 25/8/1984 27   MF 25 Mu Kanazaki 16/2/1989 22   MF 14 Keiji Yoshimura 8/8/1979 32   MF 20 Danilson 6/9/1986 25   MF 22 Koji Hashimoto 22/4/1986 25   FW 18 Kensuke Nagai 5/3/1989 22

MF 27 Sho Hanai 10/11/1989 22   MF 28 Taishi Taguchi 16/3/1991 20   MF 33 Ryota Isomura 16/3/1991 20   MF 38 Alex Santos 20/7/1977 34   FW 11 Keiji Tamada 11/4/1980 31   FW 16 Joshua Kennedy 20/8/1982 29   MF 35 Teruki Tanaka 26/8/1992 19   MF 34 Makito Yoshida 20/10/1992 19   FW 29 Hikaru Kuba 9/4/1990 21