Xerox Super Soccer (Tokyo) 1979-1990

Sponsored by Fuji Xerox, foreign teams were invited to play matches against the Japanese national team, or an all-star selection from Japanese clubs (including foreign players). Some of the matches were also charity fund-raisers for UNICEF (in particular 1987 and 1988). The event was discontinued in 1990, but in 1994 the Xerox Super Cup was instituted, in the form of a match between the previous season's J-League champions and Emperor's Cup winners. It is played as a curtain-raiser to the J-League season, similar to the English FA Charity/Community Shield.

Overview

1979
  10-10 Kobe      New York Cosmos        1-1  Japan League XI

1980
   9-11 Fukuoka   Washington Diplomats   1-0  Japan 
  24-11 Tokyo     Washington Diplomats   1-1  Japan
  [Note: between the two matches, the Diplomats played some other games in Japan
         (not against the national team); it is not clear if these were also part
         of the Xerox Super Soccer event.]

1981 - not played

1982 - first
  16- 1 Tokyo     Boca Juniors           1-1  Japan
  20- 1 Kobe      Boca Juniors           3-2  Japan
  24- 1 Tokyo     Boca Juniors           1-0  Japan

1982 - second
   3-11 Omiya     New York Cosmos        3-1  Japan
   7-11 Kobe      New York Cosmos        3-1  Japan
  10-11 Tokyo     New York Cosmos        1-0  Japan

1984
  14- 1 Kobe      Corinthians Paulista   1-2  Japan
  16- 1 Nagoya    Corinthians Paulista   2-1  Japan
  22- 1 Tokyo     Corinthians Paulista   2-3  Japan

1985
  12- 1 Tokyo     Girondins de Bordeaux  2-1  Japan
  15- 1 Kobe      Girondins de Bordeaux  0-3  Japan

1986 - not played

1987
  24- 1 Tokyo     South America XI       1-0  Japan League XI

1988
  12- 8 Tokyo     Napoli                 2-0  Japan

1989 - not played

1990
  20- 1 Tokyo     Bayern München         2-1  Japan League XI

Additional Details

1987

  24- 1 Tokyo     South America XI       1-0  Japan League XI
          [National Stadium, 55000]
          [Josimar 32']

South American squad: 
 Coach: Carlos Bilardo (Argentina)
 Roberto 'Gato' Fernández (Paraguay)
 Jorge Seré (Uruguay)
 Josimar Higino Pereira (Brazil)
 Edino Nazareth Filho 'Edinho' (Brazil)
 Rogelio Delgado (Paraguay)
 Justo Jacquet (Paraguay)
 Leovegildo Lins da Gama 'Júnior' (Brazil)
 Antônio Carlos 'Toninho' Cerezo (Brazil)
 Mário José dos Reis Emiliano 'Marinho' (Brazil)
 Ramón Palacios (Paraguay)
 Juan Torales (Paraguay)
 Roberto Cabañas (Paraguay)
 Gustavo Dalto (Uruguay)
 Raúl Maradona (Argentina)
 Diego Maradona (Argentina) [c]
 Félix Ricardo Torres (Paraguay)

Japan League All-Stars (lineup announced in advance):
 Dido Havenaar (Mazda)
 Yasutaro Matsuki (Yomiuri)
 Hisashi Kaneko (Furukawa)
 Hisashi Kato (Yomiuri)
 Toshinobu Katsuya (Honda)
 Satoshi Miyauchi (Furukawa)
 Takashi Mizunuma (Nissan)
 Yasuhiko Okudera (Furukawa)
 Ruy Gonçalves Ramos Sobrinho (Yomiuri)
 Nobuhiro Takeda (Yomiuri)
 Toshio Matsuura (Nippon Kokan)
 [Goalkeeper Shinichi Morishita (Yamaha) also played in the match]

Note: the two foreigners in this lineup, Dido Havenaar (Dutch) and Ruy Ramos (Brazilian),
      later became naturalized Japanese citizens.

1988

[Aug 12, National Stadium, Tokyo; att 41,000]
Japan        0-2 Napoli          
  [Careca 15, 82]
  [Japan: Matsunaga, Ihara, Shinto, Kajino (82 Hashiratani), Hirakawa
          (20 Horiike), Nagai (23 Mori), Natori, Yoshida (45 Kusaki), 
          Okudera (23 Sasaki (71 Asaoka)), Hara, Maeda;
   Napoli: Giuliani, Corradini, Renica, Francini (45 Carannante), Alemao,
           Ferrara (86 Bigliardi), De Napoli (79 Filardi), Romano
           (45 Carnevale), Fusi, Maradona, Careca]

About this document

Thanks to Ian King for 1988 data

Prepared and maintained by Neil Morrison for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Author: Neil Morrison
Last updated: 28 Jan 2011