Yokohama F•Marinos is a Japanese football team which participates in the fully professional J. League Division 1; the top Japanese professional football league. Having won the J-League title three times and finished second twice, they are one of the most successful J-League clubs. The team are based in Yokohama and were founded as the company team of Nissan Motors. The club was formed by the merger of Yokohama Marinos and Yokohama Flügels in 1999. The current name is intended to reflect both Marinos and Flügels. The team name Marinos means "sailors" in Spanish. Yokohama F•Marinos are the longest serving team in the top flight of Japanese football having played at the top level since 1982.<\/P>
In 1973, the team started as the Nissan Motors F.C. based in Yokohama, and were promoted to the Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1976. They took necessary steps like building a friendly relationship with local high schools and universities and starting junior teams for school kids to be a winning team. Under the first paid or professional team manager in Japan Shu Kamo, the team won championships in 1988 and 1989 as well as the JSL Cup and Emperor's Cup winning all three major tournaments in Japan at that time.<\/P>
In 1991, it was one of the founding members of the J. League. In 1998, after losing one of their primary sponsors, it was announced that crosstown rivals Yokohama Flügels would merge with Marinos. Since then, an F was added to the name to represent the Flügels half of the club. Many Flügels fans rejected the merger, rather believing their club to have been dissolved into Marinos. As a result, they refused to follow F. Marinos and instead created Yokohama FC, F. Marinos' new crosstown rivals. In 2010, Shunsuke Nakamura made a come-back to Yokohama F•Marinos.<\/P>
The team's home stadiums are Nissan Stadium, otherwise know as International Stadium Yokohama, and Mitsuzawa Stadium. However, the squad trains in the newly constructed Marinos Town in the Minato Mirai area of Yokohama.<\/P>","892B81E13FEE84C5":"f-marinos@so-net.ne.jp","41780118C08E58E3":"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Nissan+Stadium&sll=33.200371,131.657195&sspn=0.005171,0.01133&ie=UTF8&ll=35.509942,139.60723&spn=0.00503,0.01133&t=h&z=17","32EED5AE2B03C17AE9CE11F4F5F2936F":"Yokohama F. Marinos","8165D0EC38D769BD27A209A15276D0CF":"","87C021F1E71FC6CD6E05BF0B3DD05793":"74kg","341115063FD1CD8D":"37585","F84B1B8AF3973AEE":"1","90CF36599B563A1AA6EE0398DF07A98F":"Yokohama Marinos MM21 Training Center, 6-2, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa 220-0012","84FBAAA541406939DA36722337FBDFD18D691C310C47982D":"1972","03A7D9C89753B0D1D7F7ED990952C548":"0","4DC924206DB9E0EB3B8818DC2C371A93":"Nissan Stadium","CC02AD5B3CF69E6DCAD0426C64DE8022":"Italy,Australia","1CD1A53514962B6A":"1","7C314F98A46E5CCF80F8B8125BB0A065":"2025-4-18","6B02481E401D41DD8A44F7EAE1BDE140":"Melbourne Victory FC","23A207CDBA5674BBB1C9F6E64605564A":"Patrick Kisnorbo","A71E2A228B763CFB":"Yokohama","3FC9B61F2E659497C9CEBAE42D62ADEB":"Japan","2EC2CE09DA225C510B8476426035EFA9":"
Nissan FC
All Japan Senior Cup: 1976
Japan Soccer League: (2) 1988\/1989, 1989\/90
JSL Cup: (3) 1988, 1989, 1990
Emperor's Cup: (5) 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991
Asian Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1991\/92
Yokohama Marinos
J. League 1st stage: (1) 1995
J. League championship: (1) 1995
Asian Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1992\/93
J League Runners Up: (1) 2008\/09
Yokohama F•Marinos
J. League 1st stage: (3) 2000, 2003, 2004
J. League 2nd stage: (1) 2003
J. League Championship: (2) 2003, 2004
J. League Cup: (1) 2001 <\/P>","34A0AE9CBA0644B6":"http:\/\/www.f-marinos.com\/","03A7D9C89753B0D1380A64764519199FB9772FF9B422CB1E":"1","4852A99C0B1E8B281F768BF6F7769914":"Melbourne Victory FC,ES Troyes AC,Melbourne City","EB91D699086F1F17846A1216AD2083C3":"72,327","56D1193A280251FE":"Yokohama F. Marinos","0EB6A015033C3CEC56DA30D47F1CA55E":"
Patrick Fabio Maxime Kisnorbo is an Australian football (soccer) player of Mauritian and Italian heritage who plays for Leeds United in The Championship of the English Football League. Kisnorbo is also an Australian international with 18 caps to his name. Also known by his nickname Paddy.
Kisnorbo plays at centre-back but in the past he has also played as a defensive midfielder. He was a fans' favourite at Leicester City, accumulating over 100 appearances in his four years at the club. During his time with Leicester, he was at the centre of a number of refereeing controversies in which officiating calls were later shown to be wrong. He has also suffered some injuries that affected his playing ability for a time. Kisnorbo has represented Australia at international level in three tournaments; the 2002 and 2004 Oceania Nations (OFC) Cups and the 2007 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup. He started his professional career at South Melbourne and later played for the Scottish club Hearts before joining Leicester and then transferring to Leeds United.
Kisnorbo won the 2009-10 fans Player of The Season award and also the Players Player Award for Leeds United in his debut season. During his first 2 years at Leeds, Kisnorbo wore a headband bandage when playing football as 'tradition' after initially wearing it after suffering a head injury on his Leeds debut.<\/P>","A2993BAC4D9D88EC":"","3D3B712BD7BB3346233C27994E5E2815":"1981-3-24","4215859A20E707AF2C0683BB3A054242":"79","A3B3C821F4815DD2":"356","F4582884020ECEA691D8D46CC172E947":"188cm","9770E443802D7F63":"27.06","e_index":3};