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CUP CORNER

AFP, Osaka
A group of Japanese football fans on Tuesday presented England with an origami St George's Cross flag intended as a World Cup goodwill message to the squad, their fans and injured captain David Beckham.
Representatives of the Osaka Supporters' Club, based in Japan's second city, handed in the English flag made of 6,000 folded paper cranes to the British Embassy in Tokyo 24 days before the World Cup finals kick off.
"It's half a get-well for Beckham and half wishing the England team all the best for the World Cup," an embassy spokeswoman said.
Beckham broke a bone in his left foot during a Champions League quarter-final against Deportivo La Coruna last month but looks set to be fit to to captain England in the World Cup.
"To give support to the England team and also to English fans, we made 6,000 cranes (birds)... to be given to the FA as a present," said the organisation's chairman Koichi Takeuchi, 36.
In his letter accompanying the gift, which was addressed to Beckham, the other England players and England fans, Takeuchi explained that Japanese traditionally fold paper cranes to make dreams come true.
The letter also expressed Takeuchi's faith in England fans as genuine supporters according to the embassy spokeswoman.
"Unfortunately there are many people in Osaka and all over Japan who are worried about England supporters possibly turning to hooligans, but I, as one of the football lovers, am hoping to change such an uneasy atmosphere," Takeuchi wrote.
"Not everyone in Japan holds bad images against England. There are
many fans who like to welcome you to Japan," he continued.
English football supporters have become synonymous with hooliganism in the eyes of many Japanese due to violent clashes in the past during and after matches, most recently in Belgium during the Euro 2000 tournament.
But with the England team due to play Nigeria on June 12 in Osaka along with two other matches in Japan, the 40-member-strong club is working overtime to try and change the negative image of English supporters before they begin pouring into the country.
Takeuchi has already pioneered an 'I am not a hooligan' T-shirt campaign by making 1,000 T-shirts with the slogan emblazoned across the front in black print except for a red 'not' which sell for 1,980 yen (15.6 dollars), over the Internet.
"The T-shirts are to educate people in Japan that English and other foreign football fans are not all bad," he said, proudly sporting one.
The anti-hooligan campaign has been a huge success so far, said Takeuchi, but he remains worried that there could be some problems during the month-long tournament.
"With the England versus Nigeria game it is the last in their round so the losing team will likely be knocked out of the games, therefore I think the losing side will be very angry and so there could be trouble," he said.
The embassy spokeswoman said the crane flag would be sent to the English Football Association to pass on to the England team before they leave for World Cup warm-up training.
WORLD CUP UNDERWEAR!
Tokyo
A Japanese lingerie maker is keeping abreast of the World Cup bandwagon with a special "Hat-trick" bra designed to commemorate the finals of the football tournament here in three and a half weeks.
The cup of the brassiere, unveiled Tuesday by Triumph International Japan Inc, is covered with netting and its padding is patterned to look like a soccer ball.
It is matched with a pair of shorts embroidered with the image of a goalkeeper catching a ball.
Triumph said it will market a limited edition of 100 sets of the underwear from Friday to commemorate World Cup finals to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea from May 31 to June 30.
The "Hat-trick" sets, priced at 17,000 yen (130 dollars) apiece, will be sold at department stores in and around Tokyo.
Triumph, a member of the German underwear giant Triumph Group, is famous for its novelty bras.
Last November it displayed a "Triumph Baseball Bra", which featured realistic fielders' mitts playing an important supportive role.
The bra, which was not for sale, was a tribute to Japanese baseball players such as US major league stars Ichiro Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki.
Triumph also developed the pure gold and diamond "Millennium Bra" in late 1999, which cost some 200 million yen (1.7 million dollars).