The Merger That Changed Japanese Football

How a boardroom deal, a fan uprising, and a fairy tale cup run collided in the winter of 1998 Picture an ordinary Thursday morning in late October, 1998. Coffee, a folded newspaper, the usual scan of headlines before the commute. For an All Nippon Airways Sports administrator named Mr. Omatsu, that routine ended somewhere in […]

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