Shinji Ono

I remember we did the chant at the airport when we were waiting for the team.

Some poor guy who stepped off a plane has a few hundred people chanting at him & has no idea why 

Shinji's 2 goals from Season 2013/14

That first derby goal...damn what class!

 

 

That first derby goal...damn what class!

pointing at the WSW crest on his chest... demfeels.jpg

My kids still talk about him. 

my daughter regularly says she misses him and that he is still her favourite wanderers player. 

My kids still talk about him. 

 

my daughter regularly says she misses him and that he is still her favourite wanderers player.

 

May daughter says the same thing.

I hope he can be our club ambassador for our WSW Japanese fans. The Japanese love him

I really, really regret not kidnapping him at the end of his last season.

I hope he can be our club ambassador for our WSW Japanese fans. The Japanese love him

I was wearing my shinji jersey in hawaii and all the japanese were staring and commenting and gesturing to me about the name on the back and giving me thumbs up... I like to think it was because of my rugged good looks.. but whatevs.

Turns 37 according to Asian Football Feast.

almost old enough for sydney FC to sign

but he is not enough of a princess to sign with them

:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

his side won promotion to J1 

Future WSW manager......one day....taking a punt now that this will happen......

My favourite player seeing him play every other week for those 2 seasons was an absolute pleasure such a boss player.

If anyone cares..  Here's a Shinji update!

Today, Shinji playing for newly promoted J1 team Consodole Sappora his ex team Uruwa Red diamonds today and beat them 2-0..

Shinji made a pretty neat assist for one of the goals!

Shinji coming on 1:35:00

Shinji assist on 2nd goal 1:48:00

Miss him!!!

love that man.

and that kit is sexy. thanks West13 for hooking me up with mine 

For those of you with an academic bent ("An academic bent what?" I hear you ask) here is a good article from a couple of WSU academics on Shinji's impact as an Asian sports star in western Sydney.

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WYZJ9QPBYTPCSZNNPBAE/full?target=10.1080/09523367.2019.1657841

I don't know anything about McDonald but the other author of the paper, Jorge Knijik is a very good bloke and has a real love of sokkah & the Wanderers

https://twitter.com/JorgeKni

7 hours ago, ManfredSchaefer said:

For those of you with an academic bent ("An academic bent what?" I hear you ask) here is a good article from a couple of WSU academics on Shinji's impact as an Asian sports star in western Sydney.

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WYZJ9QPBYTPCSZNNPBAE/full?target=10.1080/09523367.2019.1657841

I don't know anything about McDonald but the other author of the paper, Jorge Knijik is a very good bloke and has a real love of sokkah & the Wanderers

https://twitter.com/JorgeKni

Shinji was/is imho ( at the present time ) the best visa player we have had.....by a long way. My favourite Wanderer ( closely followed by Santa and Bridge ). 

29 minutes ago, sonar said:

Shinji was/is imho ( at the present time ) the best visa player we have had.....by a long way. My favourite Wanderer ( closely followed by Santa and Bridge ). 

He was a  sexual soccerist 

Best 'marquee' for any HAL team imo

Broich was arguably better as far as impact on the football pitch (long term), Shinji is an absolute legend though and we were very lucky to get him.

Broich definitely stuck around and was great for Brisbane but he dived too much and the refs fell for it more often than not - imo 

Unfortunately, diving is part of the game (I agree that it is not a good part of the game).

But Broich's impact on the Roar, and the overall league, was arguably greater than Tensai.

Roar (led by Broich and Ange) revolutionised the league. The number of trophies shows this.

Ono arguably did too (but over a shorter period of time). If we'd have come into the league earlier, or acquired Shinji at a younger age, he would've easily been more effective, overall.

Oh Shinji, our wandering Japanese samurai how we miss you!

Definitely the best we have ever had and the club needs to find another one like him for next season if we want to be a force to be feared again.

Shinji Ono announces his retirement

Arigato, Tensai. We were so lucky to have him, a gentleman and an amazing player.

Lets be honest people we have never had a better player then Tensai. Absolute boss of a player.

Really should have kept him longer. Even with injuries and she he would have been hear and shoulders above summer of the players we've had.