- Vegalta Sendai
Football club infobox
clubname = Vegalta Sendai
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founded = 1988
ground = Yurtec Stadium Sendai
Izumi-ku, Sendai
capacity = 19,694
chairman = Yoshitaka Nagawa
manager =Makoto Teguramori (2008– )
league =J. League Div.2
season = 2007
position = 4th Place
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Japan ese professionalfootball (soccer) club, currently playing in Division 2 of theJ-league . The team is located in Sendai,Miyagi Prefecture . Their home stadium is Yurtec Stadium Sendai, inIzumi-ku, Sendai , although a few home games have also been played at nearbyMiyagi Stadium .History
Founded in 1988 as "Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. Soccer Club", Vegalta joined the J-League in 1999 after playing a few years in the JFL, with the nickname "Brummell Sendai". When joining the J-League, the name Vegalta was chosen as a homage to the famous
Tanabata festival in Sendai. The names of the two celestial stars of the Tanabata legend, "Vega " and "Altair " were combined to form "Vegalta".Current players
"As of
July 25 ,2008 "Former players
*flagicon|Japan
Kenji Fukuda
*flagicon|JapanShohei Ikeda
*flagicon|JapanTeruo Iwamoto
*flagicon|GermanyPierre Littbarski
*flagicon|JPNShigeyoshi Mochizuki
*flagicon|JapanHajime Moriyasu
*flagicon|JapanKazuhiro Murakami
*flagicon|JapanJun Muramatsu
*flagicon|JapanNorio Omura
*flagicon|JapanKatsutomo Oshiba
*flagicon|JapanHisato Satō
*flagicon|MacedoniaGoce Sedloski
*flagicon|JapanKoya Shimizu
*flagicon|JapanDaijiro Takakuwa
*flagicon|Brazil Thiago Neves
*flagicon|JapanTakahiro Yamada
*flagicon|JapanYoshiteru Yamashita
*flagicon|Brazil BorgesManagers
References
External links
*ja icon [http://www.vegalta.co.jp/ Vegalta Sendai Official Web Site]
J. League
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