After winning the Serie A title with Roma in the 00/01 season, Nakata spent the following season
transfer to another club (professional sports)
Parma (Parma), Parma in order to get Hidetoshi Nakata, the price paid by
transfer to another club (professional sports)
At the time, Parma had plenty of money on hand, as they sold a number of players, most notably Italian goalkeeper Buffon and French center back Thuram, who were both
Juventus, Italian football team
pack and buy
When Nakata arrived at Parma, his teammates included Cannavaro, the late Italian defensive captain, Appiah, the Ghanaian star who later also went to Juve, Almeyda, the Argentinean back from the '98 World Cup, Bennarivo, the Italian left back from the '94 World Cup, and Di Vaio, the Italian striker, and Parma brought in a few players to complement the team, among them Taffarel, the legendary Brazilian goalkeeper, and Turkish striker Hakan Sukur.
Parma's performance slipped this year due to the loss of their ace goalkeeper and center back, Nakata scored one goal in 24 matches this year, and the team's ranking slipped to 10th place from 4th place last season. However, this season, Parma won the Italian Cup, in which Nakata scored two goals, especially in the final match with
Juventus, Italian football team
Parma won 1:0 at home against Juve in the second leg, Nakata's away goal was bigger, and the total score was 2:2. Parma win to take the Coppa Italia
Nakata has once again become the hero of the team, if not for his away goal in the first round of the meeting that brought back the dead, Parma would have been difficult to beat Juve, Nakata is really good at shooting from the right side of the penalty area, and he has a special affinity with Juve, his debut game against Juve scored two goals shocked the world, in the Roma team is also a goal and an assist to Juve to make Roma get a key draw to get the Yi A champion, and then again in the Parma is against Juve in the final of the Italian Cup, all three of the most important and glorious moments of his career. Instead of saying that Nakata is Juve's nemesis, the other way around is to say that Juve actually made Nakata successful, and the three most important and glorious moments of his career were all against Juve.
After this season, the 2002 Japan-Korea World Cup began.
In order to prepare for the 02 World Cup, Japan had prepared for the training system very early, including the creation of the J-League, the improvement of the level, youth training and education, etc. The Japanese team in the 02 World Cup was known as the new generation of Japan, which surpassed the Japan of the Miami Miracle, with a very high fighting ability. This generation of Japanese team can also be said to be the generation that has really developed since the creation of the J-League (there were still players from the old Japan League in 98), and this generation of Japanese team's final achievement can be said to be extremely successful for a Japanese team with a local player as the base.
Japan in order to host the World Cup, as early as after 1998, has hired the French head coach Troussier, at that time has been many years in the African countries coaching, in Africa is known as the white wizard, its ever-changing tactics to make the team achieve excellent results, Japan not only let Troussier as a head coach, but also in 1999 let him directly concurrently as the head coach of the Japanese U20 team, the purpose is to let Troussier can completely master all the players of Japan's younger generation, but also can control the adjustment of the players' form and tactics, so that he can have a team that fully meets its requirements in the World Cup 02. Troussier was able to control all the players of Japan's young generation, and could also control and adjust the players' status and tactics, so that he could have a Japanese team that fully met his requirements when he played in the World Cup in 2002.
Troussier's Japan team was really strong, their U20 team finished second in the 2000 World Youth Cup, then the adult team won the 2000 Asian Cup, at this time, the Japanese team in addition to the players of the '98 period, plus a large number of emergence of excellent young players, Troussier can freely select the players who meet his requirements to enter the adult
the national team
He's got a lot of cards in his hand.
Troussier's Japan played a 352 formation in the 02 World Cup, and he boldly used 3 defenders, and this time there was enough time to adjust the players, unlike the 98 period which was a temporary change of formation, this 352 Japan is considered to be a very successful 352 formation, with Masayoshi Narasaki in goal, Huanjing Miyamoto, Naoki Matsuda, Koji Nakata in defense, Junichi Inamoto, Hidetoshi Nakata, Kazuyuki Toda, Shinji Ono in midfield, and Tomoyuki Ichikawa, Tomokazu Akane, Kanke Santo, and Kan Ko Morishima up front. Shinji Ichikawa, Ichikawa Daisuke, Akagami Tomokazu, Santo Lord, Morishima Kanko, strikers are Suzuki Takayuki and Yanagisawa Atsushi, Nishizawa Akitsugu and Nakayama Masashi, but unfortunately Takahara Nao-tai, who was originally going to be the main striker, was unable to play before the World Cup due to a venous thrombosis (Takahara Nao-tai was considered to be the best striker in this period of time for the Japanese team to be the best goal scorer), as well as young Nakamura Shunsuke ended up missing the selection because the dynamics and physical strength of Troussier's body was considered to be the most important factor. Troussier did not think that they were good enough to play in the World Cup.
