Could be intersesting to see if Verdy do go belly up this winter if this has any effect on Machida. If Verdy cease to exist, then Machida Zelvia might get a boost being a Tokyo team that isn`t FC Tokyo. Maybe, maybe not as having lived in or around Machida City from 2000 to 2007 and never met a single FC Machida (as they were) or Machida Zelvia fan; they could be destined to stay as lowly supported as they currently are.
I`d like to see it but, on the whole I just don`t think Tokyo is a "football city" as of 2010. Baseball is King in the Capital unfortunately,The Yomiuri Giants draw 40,000 five days a week and even an average team like Yakult regularly get into the high teens.. FC Tokyo can get 25,000 on a good day with a big team coming to town, Verdy even in J1 only averaged about 14,000 and even this figure is boosted by the big away followings of Urawa, Marinos and such like. Maybe Machida can change a few peoples way of thinking and they will definately have turned a few heads with last nights derby win. All credit to them, they turned up, did a job and took the spoils.
Why can't there just be a central Tokyo team, playing at Komazawa or the national stadium in Harajuku/Yoyogi instead of all this travelling to the outskirts bollocks...?
ReplyDeleteTwo words.....Ajinomoto Stadium!! It was built with the 2002 World Cup in mind and completed just before. (Though it was never used in the actual tournament). Both Tokyo teams moved into the then Tokyo Soccer Stadium as it was known. The orgsanisers definately missed a trick with building a new stadium rather than redeveloping the Olympic Stadium. It`s biggest advantage is indeed its location, though of course in Japan they like shiny new things instead of repolished old ones so along came Tokyo Soccer Stadium in Chofu. Japan have put in for the 2022 World Cup and there is talk of building an 80,000 seat bohemeth stadium in Osaka for the Final....a White Elephant to eclipse all the oversized stadiums that were built for 2002!!
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