[sumo] Asashoryu and Soccer

[Barbara Ann]

The Daily Yomiuri also had something:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20070731TDY22005.htm

Asashoryu returns, apologizes
The Yomiuri Shimbun

Yokozuna Asashoryu returned from Mongolia on Monday and 
immediately apologized to the Japan Sumo Association for playing 
soccer in his homeland while we was reportedly unable to 
participate in a tour due to injury.

The 26-year-old met association chairman Kitanoumi to explain why 
he was playing soccer days after handing in a sick note to excuse 
him from this month's tour of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

"I am reflecting on what I have done," said Asashoryu, who was 
joined by his stablemaster, Takasago, in the meeting at Tokyo's 
Ryogoku Kokugikan. "I will receive treatment in Japan and do my 
best at the next grand sumo tournament."

Takasago explained that Asashoryu was requested to appear in the 
friendly soccer match by the Mongolian government.

"He said the government asked him, but even so, what he did is 
unacceptable," Takasago said.

Kitanoumi made no comment to reporters, and Takasago would not 
reveal what the chairman said during their meeting.



On Tue Jul 31 04:34:29 PDT 2007, emmett.wayne at us.army.mil wrote:

> Article in Japan Today:
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> http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/413723
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