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Japan soccer exec denies payment over 2002 World Cup vote
A senior official of the Japan Football Association has denied allegations that it paid $1.5 million to the sport’s South American confederation for supporting its co-hosting of the 2002 World Cup Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 , a newspaper reported Sunday.


“It’s impossible,� JFA hononary president Junji Ogura told the Asahi Shimbun of the report.


On Friday, Spanish sports daily Diario AS said the JFA paid the money to the South American football confederation, Conmebol, after it backed Japan’s co-hosting with South Korea of the 2002 event.


The report came amid deepening scandals at the top of world football’s governing body FIFA. Fourteen of its officials or partners have been charged as part of a corruption investigation led by U.S. authorities.


A source who worked at Conmebol for 15 years told the Spanish paper that the then-JFA honorary president Ken Naganuma sent the money in 2000. He has since died.


Japan and South Korea were chosen in 1996 as joint hosts of the 2002 event after fierce competition between the two nations.


Ogura said any such payment in 2000 would have been impossible since Japan had won the event four years earlier.


“Besides, we don’t have such a sum of money,� he added.


The Yomiuri Shimbun quoted JFA president Kuniya Daini as saying the organisation would check whether the money was really sent.


Kozo Tashima, a JFA vice president and member of the FIFA executive committee Cheap Nike Air Max , told local media he had never heard about the alleged payment.


“I know nothing. I don’t know what to say,� he said.


The JFA could not be reached for comment Sunday.


TOKYO, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Schalke defender Atsuto Uchida will miss next month's Asian Cup due to injury, the Japan Football Association said on Sunday.


His place will be taken by Kashima Antlers defender Naomichi Ueda.


Uchida injured his right knee in July and has been struggling with fitness problems since.


By Sportswriters Xiao Yazhuo, Wang Chunyan


XILINHOT, China, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Against the blue sky dotted with sparse white clouds, the 69-year-old Lamu was feasting her eyes on the Mongolian wrestling matches Cheap Air Max 1 , only dozens of meters ahead on the grassland, as the most popular traditional Naadam for Mongols was being held for the first time after a hiatus of 28 years at her home Sumu (Town), in the Authentic Blue Banner (County) of Xilin Gol League (City), Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.


"Naadam has become an indispensable part of life for people on the Prairie, we love it and embraced it like blood in our bodies," said Lamu on Wednesday, who sat on a camp chair with her legs stretching out naturally on the grass, which blows freshness of the air in a summer breeze Cheap Air Max 2017 , "I like Naadam since I was a little kid, and I still walk around to watch three to four Naadams every year even I am an elder grandma. It 's just a fun time for people, like us Mongols, to enjoy a big party."


With a long history of some 800 years, dated back to 1225 in a written stone carvings of Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongolian Empire, Naadam had been held as military training during the ancient Dynasty of Yuan, when the three events of Mongolian wrestling Cheap Air Max 2018 , horse-racing and archery became the Triple Skills requested to be mastered by every Mongolian man. Through centuries of evolution, the Triple Skills remain unchanged, and has been adopted strictly by the people on the Prairie.


With a literal meaning of "games", Naadam has been enriched with more and more folk events generation after generation, and women are now also allowed to compete along with their husbands and brothers, as all the events are open to all people regardless of either age or gender, and every match is a do-or-die competition.


As a popular game on the Prairie, the number of Naadams is very hard to be counted in Inner Mongolia every year Cheap Air Max , as the Mongols can and always host their private Naadams as a way of celebration for many reasons, such as livestock harvest, family weddings, birthdays, or any other spiritual gatherings.


Lamu said that the ongoing Naadam was one of the biggest she has ever seen nearby, as the hosting Saiyinghuduoga Sumu (town) has combined three Sumus decades ago under the administrative re-arrangement of the League (City).


"I came here with my two sons, one will compete as a wrestler and the other as horse rider. We don't care who will be the winners, we come here just for fun Cheap Nike Air Max 1 Clearance ," Lamu said.


According to local governor Alatengbagen, there are roughly one thousand competitors, one sixth of its whole Sumu population of 5,800, in the key Triple Skills, as well as other three events, such as tug-of-war and Mongolian chess, during the three-day Naadam Cheap Nike Air Max 2017 Clearance , which has attracted more than 10,000 enthusiast people from four ethnic nationalities of Mongolian, Man, Hui and Han, some of them even drove hundreds of kilometers for the fiesta.


Mongolian wrestling, also named Bokh, has remained to be the most popular event, with eye-catching traditional back-only jackets and colorful pants.


"Bokh is different from any other kinds of wrestling. All the matches are open classes Cheap Nike Air Max 2018 Clearance , without limits of age, gender and duration. Any part of the body, other than the feet, touches the grassland, meaning the defeat and elimination from the Naadam," explained Huqun, a local young wrestler.


What made the 24-year-old stands out from the others is a cloth ring around his neck with colorful strips flowing in the wind.


"It's a Jiang-ga, the holy symbol of top honor for our wrestlers. Only the winner of a 256-member tournament or who wins four times from any 128-member tournament Cheap Nike Air Max Clearance , will be eligible for the Jiang-ga," Huqun said with a big toothy smile across his face. And the number of strips means the times of his victories in any Naadam of any kind.


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