Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Sanfrecce Hiroshima(サンフレッチェ広島) is a J. League team. The team name comes from the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'. This is based on the story of Mori Motonari who told his three sons that while an arrow might be easily snapped, three arrows would not be broken and urged them to work for the good of the clan and its retainers.

The team's home town is Hiroshima, Hiroshima and plays at Hiroshima Big Arch and Hiroshima Perfectural Stadium . It practices at Yoshida Soccer Park in Akitakata, Hiroshima and Hiroshima 1st Ball Park.

The team was a former company team of Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club in 1938. The name change was made at Mazda SC Toyo in 1980. It joined J. League in 1991. It was the first team to win a stage championship to fall to J2 league. It fell on 2002 and managed to comeback in a year placing at the 2nd on 2003 season in J2.

Titles

• 1994 - J. League 1st stage championship

Current Stars

• Kazuyuki Morisaki
• Koji Morisaki
• Ri Han-Jae (now North Korea national football team)

Former Players

• Hayden Foxe
• Tatsuhiko Kubo
• Noh Jung-Yoon
• Tore Pedersen
• César Sampaio
• Takuya Takagi
• Marcus Tulio Tanaka

External Link

• Sanfrecce Hiroshima Official Site (in Japanese)