MANCHESTER, England – Yoshihiro Okubo might not have been able to see the ball. But he could see the future.
As a player for the first Japanese national lacrosse team, Okubo recalled when big, bad Australia knocked Japan around in a 56-0 loss.
Fifty-six goals to none.
“I remember it,” Okubo said through interpreter Eri Shikami. “I don’t even know how they scored all those goals. I couldn’t even see the ball.”
Twenty-three years after the humble formation of the Japan Lacrosse Association — and 18 years after fielding its first-ever national team — Japan turned the tables on Australia in an 11-9 victory Monday in the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships.
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