New Players, New Numbers - Yakudo!

Gamba Osaka held a "new season" day today, January 19th and made some announcements for the fans.

Following the departure of Satoshi Yamaguchi to JEF United, Yasuhito Endo was installed as Vice Captain. Tomokazu Myojin kept his position as Captain.

Gamba announced their slogan for the new season - Yakudo!

Incoming players were unveiled, along with their new squad numbers, as well as some changes in number for some of the already-established players.

The new players shirt numbers are as follows;
5. Daiki Niwa
11. Paulinho
13. Shinichi Terada
14. Shu Kurata
15. Yasuyuki Konno
20. Akihiro Sato
22. Yohei Takeda
25. Hiroyuki Abe
26. Takaharu Nishino
28. Katsuhisa Inamori
30. Eduardo
31. Ken Tajiri

As well as the new players, the following players changed squad numbers;
4. Hiroki Fujiharu (from no.15)
6. Shigeru Yokotani (from no.25)

19. Kotaro Omori (from no.31)
27. Tatsuya Uchida (from no.30)