Judo coach Yosh Uchida continues to affect the lives of Olympians at 101. One of his pupils, Colton Brown, is competing at the Tokyo Olympics.The loss isn’t likely to keep Mexico out of the knockout round. After last week’s 4-1 win over France, Mexico is guaranteed a spot in the tournament quarterfinals with a victory over winless South Africa on Wednesday and a French draw or loss against Japan. A tie with South Africa would also send it through provided France doesn’t win its finale.
Japan, the only unbeaten team in the group, has already reserved its spot in the second round but needs at least a draw with France to assure it will advance as the group winner. Despite playing for the second time in four days in Japan’s summer heat and humidity, Mexican coach Jaime Lozano stuck with the same lineup he used in last week’s game with France. Japan made just one change.
The fatigue may have hung heavier on the white-clad Mexicans, who had the ball for nearly 60 of the 90 minutes Sunday but did little with the advantage, taking nine shots and putting four on target, just one more than Japan in each category. Kubo, one of 10 players on the Japanese roster who plays for a first-division club in Europe, put his country ahead to stay in the sixth minute when he beat a Mexican defender to the ball, then beat Mexican keeper Guillermo Ochoa with a left-footed shot from the center of the box. The Real Madrid winger, known as the Japanese Messi for his dribbling skills and the four years he spent in Barcelona’s youth academy, has two of Japan’s three goals in the Olympic tournament.
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