Japan wins historic soccer gold at Asian Games

2010-11-22 14:07:00 GMT2010-11-22 22:07:00 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English

GUANGZHOU, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Japanese women's soccer team won their first gold medal at the Asian Games here on Monday after beating DPR Korea 1-0 at Tianhe Stadium.

The only goal of the match was scored by Japan's center-back Azusa Iwashimizu with a header from a corner in the 74th minute.

Japan remained disciplined and were able to contain DPR Korea for the final quarter of an hour, in the process of preventing them from grabbing their third consecutive Asiad gold.

Both sides were locked 0-0 in the final at the Doha Asiad 2006, before DPR Korea won 4-2 on penalties.

But in Guangzhou, Japan rewrote the history with their first ever gold medal since women's soccer has been included in the Asian Games in 1990.

In an earlier bronze medal match, China lost to South Korea 2-0.

EMAIL | PRINT | RSS

Add Your Comments:

Please read our Terms of Service. Messages that harass, abuse or threaten others; have obscene or otherwise objectionable content; have spam, commercial or advertising content or links may be removed.