FC International Tokyo, formerly known as FC Amanis, was founded in 2006 with the intention of bringing a bit of class to the Foreign Football Community in Tokyo. Having joined the Tokyo Metropolis League, the goal was (and still is) to move up to the 1st division of TML and show what football is all about! Due to reorganization of the TML we were administratively dropped to the Third Division, but last year we won it quite comfortable and we expected to win a promotion place in the Second Division. This season has started as we wanted and we do hope to keep that good team spirit and results through the whole 2008/2009 season, meaning that we will not be satisfied only with that promotion place. We are able to win this league and we'll be quite disappointed if we don't. For the end of the foreword, that's what was written about us in one of the TML's reports (and we strongly agree): "FC International are an impressively well-balanced team who truly live up to their name, with a different nationality for almost every position".
Official club colours: black&white.
Club sponsor is Tokyo Sports Cafe.
I Know the Score! Well... do I?
There is a virtual game on the Premiership website, named I Know the Score. The object of the game is to predict the right score of some matches in Premiership. But, nobody even thought about not knowing the score when the match was over. That's exactly what happened in our TML Cup game vs Celts 2. The official result ref sent to TML was 16:0 for FC International. But he somehow missed some names and scorers. Our captain Jorge tried to make the scorers list right, but when I added all the goals it looked like we scored 18 times. Obviously, after some time during the game, everybody simply stopped to count. Hoping that ref at least kept the number of goals correctly, we are going to be satisfied with official result 16:0.
Team mascots Uki and Jana (Vladimir's kids) are ready for South Africa. Let's see where are our national teams up to now. Qualified: Germany, Mexico, England, Argentina, Serbia, Japan, Brasil, Slovakia. Out: Romania, Poland and Scotland. Still fighting: Cameroon. Hmmm... It looks like there is no fluke that we are currently close to the top of the TML League 1.