Updated 2006 Japan Australia StudyLink Cup Game times

Current 2006 Japan-Australia StudyLink Cup Match times (Please watch this space):

8/9 3pm Game 1 vs. RMIT Redbacks at Bob Jane Stadium

8/10 7pm Game 2 vs. University of Melbourne at the Darebin International Sports Centre

8/11 7pm Game 3 vs. Victoria Institute of Sport at the Darebin International Sports Centre.

Please send any questions to joshua.flannery@studylink.com





StudyLink scores a goal for cultural exchange

As World Cup fever takes hold, Japanese and Australian university students are preparing to go head to head on the soccer pitch to mark the Year of Exchange between the two countries. The StudyLink Cup will see a team of 23 Japanese university students, selected and sponsored by the Kansai Student Soccer Federation, fly to Melbourne for a soccer tour of several Australian universities. The event is to also celebrate the Osaka-Melbourne sister city relationship - the Kansai team players being based in and around Osaka city.

International student recruitment firm StudyLink organised the inaugural tournament to promote sport, language and cultural exchange. StudyLink CEO Jason Howard said: “We’re committed to bringing students together and promoting understanding through education. What better way to initiate this than through sport?”

The RMIT University will host the Japanese team during its August 8 to 12 stay. While in Melbourne the team will play the RMIT Redbacks, the University of Melbourne team, and the budding national team-members of the Victorian Institute of Sport.

RMIT will provide accommodation for the visitors and, with 200 of the university’s students learning Japanese, there will be no shortage of people to host, guide and socialise with the team. The school has also invited the team into their language class to enjoy a discussion about soccer and the World Cup.

Melbourne City International has organised a lunch at the Melbourne Town Hall on August 10 where the Japanese players and others involved in the StudyLink Cup will be met by the city’s councillors.

The StudyLink Cup has been endorsed by the 2006 Japan-Australia Year of Exchange Committee and its participants will by vying for a prize sponsored by the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.

http://www.jufa-kansai.jp/about/06.07.14message.html (Japanese)