Do they rotate the Gatas and other team's players regularly? It seems a lot of the time certain players are out.
yeah, the roaster usually is Yossi/Fujimoto/Rika/Satoda/Konno; then the others work as substitutes.
Well, Konno and Tsuji are switched out pretty often (usually they alternate and in this tournament, they alternated every half).
And that lineup should be called the starting line up, because that's usually how they start their first game of a tournament. Korenaga, obviously, gets put in quite a bit, usually to get things started. Asami usually takes an offensive position because she's pretty good at cutting in quickly.
There's only three players who are weak (Miuna, Saito and Shibata) and they rarely get put in (although Miuna gets more play time than the other two). From what I've seen, Miuna really tries, but she doesn't keep an overall view of what's going on. Saito doesn't seem to focus on anything, so she may go after the player who has the ball, but she can't do anything once she's there. I have no clue what Shibata's level of playing is because you almost never see her with the ball.
Maki and Kawashima weren't at this tournament so I can't say what's become of them playwise. Maki usually gets put in on defense and does a pretty good job. Now, the secondary egg, Kawashima, I have a few theories as to why she's never put in. If you look at practice logs, she almost never shows up. I don't know why, but if there's 14 days of practice documented, she shows up maybe once or twice. This may mean the coach doesn't put her in because she doesn't know the plays. Alternativly, she used to play soccer, so maybe her skill is too long range to be effective in futsal.
uh, I forgot what this post was about and I seem to have written a lot, but I guess that's normal when I start writing about Gatas.
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