Okada staying positive

<p>Japan mentor Takeshi Okada remained upbeat in spite of suffering a fourth consecutive pre-FIFA world Cup South Africa defeat by C?te d'Ivoire yesterday. Defender Marcus Tulio Tanaka scored his next individual concentrate on in as many film games pursuing 13 mins in opposition to Sven G?ran Eriksson's side, past to Kolo Toure's close-range accomplish with nine mins remaining sealed the succeed to additional dent Japan's self-assurance forward belonging using the 14 June 2010 FIFA world Cup South Africa opener in opposition to Cameroon.</p><p>Japan have also lost to Serbia, Korea Republic and England within your build-up using the tournament. "We could have selected to hold out weak opponents to succeed these last 4 games, but we knew to possess the ability to evaluate ourselves we experienced to pick best clubs and I informed the avid gamers that in advance," Okada informed <em>Kyodo News</em>.</p> We knew to possess the ability to evaluate ourselves we experienced to pick best teams.Takeshi Okada, Japan mentor   <p /><p>Four many years ago in Germany, Japan failed to advance previous the team phase pursuing picking up just one place from three games, while on their FIFA world Cup debut in 1998, below Okada, the Blue Samurai failed to succeed a fixture past to reaching the last 16 4 many years later on on house soil.</p><p>"As much as self-assurance is concerned, it may nicely be that typically the avid gamers really feel only a little frail but we have can be found this much and merely because belonging using the situation we are within your avid gamers maybe may nicely show that additional little of effort," additional Okada.</p>