Ibaraki(Selected Team)

The Ibaraki Team is made up of players selected from about 230 junior youth football teams within Ibaraki Prefecture. Our team concept is to join together and persist for an “all-personnel defense/all-personnel offense.” We wish to understand fellow football players across national boundaries through football.
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Introduction of City

Ibaragi Prefecture lies in the north eastern section of the Kanto region, with the eastern part facing the Pacific Ocean, and the Tone river - with the largest basin area in Japan - flowing east into the region that borders Chiba Prefecture to the south. Ibaragi Prefecture is 6,095.69km2 in area. Ibaragi’s vast plateau and long coastline are major factors behind the development of Ibaragi’s agricultural and fishing industries. In recent years, however, the prefecture has been undergoing a transformation into an advanced industrial prefecture as the result of the establishment of a coastal industrial zone, an advanced science research center and an international harbor city. Meanwhile, the south of the prefecture is being developed to become bedroom suburbs of Tokyo, playing a role in the function of Tokyo Metropolis. Mito city, where the prefectural government is based, is famous for Mito Komon (Tokugawa Mitsukuni), a member of the great Tokugawa family of the Edo period and who was renowned for his extensive travels through Japan. Mito is also famous for the Kairakuen gardens featuring plum blossoms, and for natto (fermented soy beans) production which became widespread after the Meiji period, with “natto from Mito” a familiar food product among the Japanese.