{"id":11587,"date":"2018-03-14T17:56:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2018-03-14T17:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T08:56:37","slug":"takashi-usami-good-form-fortuna-dusseldorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/14\/takashi-usami-good-form-fortuna-dusseldorf\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Usami credits good form to friendlier German fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortuna Dusseldorf midfielder Takashi Usami has cited the warmth of the Espirit Arena faithful as a factor in his recent dynamite form, according to\u00a0<em>Gekisaka.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has been on a tear through the 2.Bundesliga in recent weeks, scoring four goals and providing two assists over the last four rounds as the team maintains a five-point lead in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview for the club&#8217;s matchday program, which was sold before he scored his third straight goal in a 2-1 win against St. Pauli, Usami was asked about the difference between Japanese and German supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Japan (the players) were booed when we lost, or when we won but didn&#8217;t play well,&#8221; Usami responded. &#8220;German supporters, especially Fortuna supporters, applaud whether you&#8217;ve won or lost as long as you play hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Usami cited the team&#8217;s DFB Pokal loss on October 24, in which teammate Niko Giesselmann missed a potentially game-tying penalty kick, as contributing to his way of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I saw the supporters tell [Giesselmann] &#8216;it wasn&#8217;t your fault,&#8217; I thought it was a wonderful scene,&#8221; Usami said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Gamba Osaka star, who previously played for Bayern Munich, Hoffenheim, and Augsburg, is awaiting a possible call-up for the Samurai Blue&#8217;s late-March friendlies against Mali and Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortuna Dusseldorf midfielder Takashi Usami has cited the warmth of the Espirit Arena faithful as a factor in his recent dynamite form, according to\u00a0Gekisaka. The 25-year-old has been on a tear through the 2.Bundesliga in recent weeks, scoring four goals and providing two assists over the last four rounds as the team maintains a five-point lead in the standings. In an interview for the club&#8217;s matchday program, which was sold before he scored his third straight goal in a 2-1 win against St. Pauli, Usami was asked about the difference between Japanese and German supporters. &#8220;In Japan (the players) were booed when we lost, or when we won but didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2018\/03\/14\/takashi-usami-good-form-fortuna-dusseldorf\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Takashi Usami credits good form to friendlier German fans&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,32],"tags":[1315,1314,1313],"class_list":["post-11587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asian-players-in-europe","category-japan","tag-2-bundesliga","tag-fortuna-dusseldorf","tag-takashi-usami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}