General Outline
This tournament serves to enhance the technical skills and mental fortitude of young aspiring football players as well as deepening their mutual understanding that transcends national borders through the games. And contributes to the enhancement of competitive skills and the cultivation of the next generation of football players.
Junior athletes from the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake will be invited to the tournament to participate in friendly matches with the teams from foreign cities and other prefectures in order to offer encouragement toward their recovery efforts again this year.
Organizers
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Sport Benefits Corporation,Tokyo Football Association
Special cooperation by
Japan Professional Football League
Supported by
Japan Football Association, Japan Inclusive Football Federation, Setagaya City, Setagaya City Board of Education,
Chofu City, Chofu City Board of Education,
Tokyo Sports Association, Tokyo Junior High School Physical Culture Association, The Yomiuri shimbun
Cooperation by
Setagaya Football Association, F.C.TOKYO, TOKYO VERDY,
FC MACHIDA ZELVIA, Recreation Association of Tokyo
Sponsors
Ambassador
Message from Mr. KITAZAWA
The Tokyo U-14 International Youth Football Tournament 2018 started in 2008, with 10 teams worth of youth generation players hoping to become the future’s top athletes gathering in Tokyo from 9 cities around the world.
This year, Tottenham will be participating from England, the homeland of football, for the first time! The tournament has now expanded to include 20 teams from 12 countries.
Through competing and communicating with various countries, we want the players to feel each other’s ways of football and cultures, and grow as individuals.
There’s only one year left until the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Our Family Inclusive Football Clinic will be held for the third time. We aim at creating a pitch (symbiotic society) where we understand and respect the differences among us such as gender, nationality, age, personality, academic background, and handicaps, and support each other. In order for the players to perform beyond their own strengths and show their best, they need everybody’s support.
This is the first U-14 International Tournament to be held in Tokyo in the new era!
Everybody please take part with us!
KITAZAWA Tsuyoshi
Tokyo U-14 International Youth Football Tournament Ambassador
The former Japan National football player
Director of Japan Football Association(JFA)
Chairman of Japan Inclusive Football Federation