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...bringing in foreigners to raise the intensity level, Japan has tried other team-building tactics, including employing a psychologist, Kazushige Toyoda, for the youth team. Toyoda specializes in the practice of qi, which supposedly unleashes the body's inner powers. Among those he trained was the national team's striker, the bleach blond, baby-faced Junichi Inamoto?the talk of Japan last week after he scored the winning goal in Japan's 1-0 victory over Russia and contributed another in a 2-2 draw with Belgium. In early qi sessions, Inamoto "was a little shy, a little modest...
...Spanish King's Cup and the European Champions League. And yet, Madrid stars Raul, Fernando Hierro and Ivan Helguera were able to do the business in their national colors. Raul wasn't complaining of exhaustion after a grueling opening game against Slovenia in the humidity of Kwangju. The striker was hungry for more. "If we carry on working as hard as that, we can achieve something great," he said. Indeed, hard running was the key to Spain's three-for-three performance. And yet, as his team prepared for its second-round game against the Irish on Sunday night, coach...
...Batistuta, dubbed "Batigol" by his fans, is the most successful striker of his generation, having achieved mythic status at Italian club Fiorentina in the 1990s before moving to AS Roma two seasons ago. In the modern game, a deadly forward is one who scores once every three games. Batistuta's average for Argentina is better than two in three. With his shoulder-length blond hair and soulful eyes, he looks a likely lead in Jesus Christ Superstar, but he has the instincts of a cold-blooded killer. Bielsa notes that Batistuta is "more comfortable in the last third...
...also apparently favored the Senegalese. Led by the lightening moves of 21-year-old striker El Hadji Diouf, who was the 2001 African Footballer of the Year, the Lions stunned an uninspired French side, which was unable to capitalize on any of 9 shots on goal (Nor were they able to convert any of 10 corner kicks; the Senegalese had none...
...pitch. Perhaps the most telling influence on Ferguson was his father Alex, who supported his early career as a player with his presence but never his congratulations - even when he'd scored four goals. "He was a born winner and a bad loser," says a former fellow striker. Ferguson won a reputation for belligerence and the nickname "razor elbows" for the barely legal style with which he created the time and space he needed to fire a shot on goal. A champion of "the beautiful game" as a manager, Ferguson was never a real beauty on the pitch...