{"id":76187,"date":"2009-12-29T16:12:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=129"},"modified":"2009-12-29T16:12:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:12:48","slug":"yamaga-go-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/yamaga-go-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamaga go up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/jfl-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Matsumoto&#8217;s ambitious little football club, Matsumoto Yamaga (aka &#8220;Gans&#8221;) had a stand out season 2009. Besides being the first non-league club to kill a giant in The Emperor&#8217;s Cup, they found their circuitous way into the league proper via a series of post-season round robins &#038; plays &#8211; explained in admirable simplicity and detail right here &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/contents08\/index.php?id=18\">http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto<br \/>.nagano.jp\/modules\/contents08\/index.php?id=18<\/a><br \/>\nPlease do post your comments to Tim Morley&#8217;s excellent review of 2009\/preview 2010 as we want to encourage this freelance correspondent to share his thoughts as the new season develops. Trust me, the fame will not be going to his head &#8211; he will still only travel on local trains!<br \/>\nWell done Yamaga, thank you Tim, and all the best for 2010.<br \/>\nJim<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/yamaga-go-up\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/yamaga-go-up\/\" data-text=\"Yamaga go up\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matsumoto&#8217;s ambitious little football club, Matsumoto Yamaga (aka &#8220;Gans&#8221;) had a stand out season 2009. Besides being the first non-league club to kill a giant in The Emperor&#8217;s Cup, they found their circuitous way into the league proper via a series of post-season round robins &#038; plays &#8211; explained in admirable simplicity and detail right here &#8211; http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/contents08\/index.php?id=18 Please do post your comments to Tim Morley&#8217;s excellent review of 2009\/preview 2010 as we want to encourage this freelance correspondent to share his thoughts as the new season develops. Trust me, the fame will not be going to his head &#8211; he will still only travel on local trains! 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