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Okada vows to lift Japan

Football AFP, Tokyo
Japan's new coach Takeshi Okada has vowed to turn the former Asian champions into a force to be reckoned with after a year of disappointments.
"I want to build a team that can have an impact on the World Cup finals," Okada said in New Year interviews with Japanese newspapers.
"The Japanese may be inferior in some respects but they have toplevel techniques. Their momentum also surprises the rest of the world," he said.
"I want to make use of these advantages. On the offensive, we will avoid clashes with opponents and use a number of players to cut through narrow areas. That is the kind of football 1 want to see," said Okada, who piloted Japan in then-World Cup debut in 1998 when they lost all three group matches.
"People say Japan don’t have strikers. But 1 want to show how we can score goals."
Japan failed to win a third straight Asian Cup last July under Ivica Osim and the Bosnian tactician was replaced by Okada as national coach after suffering a serious stroke on November 16.
Osim, who led the former Yugoslavia to a 1990 World Cup lasteight spot, had aimed to make Japan a fast and flexible side after taking over from Brazilian legend Zico at the end of Japan's failure in the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Osim, who came out of a coma two weeks after the stroke, wished Japan would produce "positive surprises" when they play Asian World Cup qualifiers in a group with Oman, Bahrain and Thailand starting on February 6.
"Football is a game of surprises and is similar to life in that sense," 66-year-old Osim said in a New Year message released through the Japan Football Association.
"I wish from the bottom of my heart that 2008 will be a year of positive surprises and see the players and . supporters in happiness and health," said Osim, popular for his pithy remarks which won the hearts of manyJapanese.
Okada, who had ambitiously set Japan's World Cup goal of finishing in the top three, said their qualifying battles would not be easy.
"I have watched videos of each team and none of them are easy opponents, ° he said.
"I didn't expect Thailand to have reached such a high level. Oman and Bahrain have players who have naturalised from Africa and South America on the frontline and they are destructive."