OT: London Olympics - Japan Men's Soccer (Football) Team Will Advance to Quarter Final

after defeating Morocco 1 - nil. The single goal of the game was made by Kensuke Nagai with only six minutes left on the clock.

With the 1 - nil win over Spain, Japan will now advance to the quarter final (tournament), regardless of the result of the final match in the qualifying round with Honduras on August 1.

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OT: Olympic Men's Football - Japan 1 - Spain 0

(Flying in the business class clearly did them good, although I heard on the radio how uncomfortable they felt with the situation.)

A Kyodo photo from Nikkei Shinbun (7/27/2012) reporting the "Miracle in Glasgow" (where the match was played) shows how the Japanese players stuffed a Spanish offense:

According to the Nikkei article, the Japanese players out-ran the Spanish counterparts, and kept on running the entire 90 minutes.

The next match for Japan is against Morocco on July 29, then Honduras.

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