Here I am with yet another call to the J.League to reduce the number of foreigners in each team. Got to keep banging at the door to make a point! While, of course, it’s great to see the big names in Japan, for every Zico or Mboma there are plenty of guys who were never good enough for their national leagues but somehow seem to make it to Japan (as opposed to making it IN Japan!). Apart from the “filler” element of these no-namers, these players are taking the chances of Japanese players to be on the field. Each year the teams let go hundreds of kids, some of whom could be kept on for the salary of one or two of the foreigners in the teams! So, the future of Japanese football, and the youth of today is being neglected by allowing so many average foreign players into “our”teams. There can be no better way to emphasize the point than to point out the lack of goals being scored by the national team and then taking a look at the top scorers in the J.League at the break – from the top – UESLEI, EDMILSON, WASHINGTON, JUNINHO, BARE, OKUBO, JOHNSEN, SATO, MARQUINHOS, LEE, YAMASE, MAGNO ALVES, LEANDRO, LUCAS, MAGNUM – yes indeed, spot the Japanese!! In fact 91 of the 121 “top” goals have been scored by foreign players (and I am counting LEE as Japanese!). Good or bad? You decide!