Despite having only played for the Dodgers in MLB for two seasons, Yamamoto has already carved himself into Dodgers history with two World Series wins and a World Series MVP in 2025. He took over the 2025 postseason, throwing two complete games in a row in the NLCS and World Series while maintaining a 1.45 ERA over the course of 37.1 innings pitched. In the World Series, he allowed just two runs in 17.2 innings pitched, and closed Game 7 without taking a full day of rest.
This will be the 21st edition of the quadrennial tournament, which is the biggest international women's football competition for nations in the Asian Football Confederation. The tournament will begin on Sunday, 1 March with a group stage consisting of three groups of four teams. Members of the same group will face each other in a round-robin format until they have played three matches each.
I'm happy for the guys. I feel like we're trying to learn some things while we're playing games. Playing three games really quickly in Coachella, to then very quickly jumping on a plane and going to Panama, to coming back and quickly playing New York and quickly turning this game around.
Cynics may say it is no coincidence the J.League has introduced penalty shootouts to replace draws just before the World Cup. Japan have identified the quarter-finals as the target this summer after failing to progress past the last 16 on three of the past four occasions, with two of those disappointments coming after failures from the spot. The 2022 tournament was the worst, with the Samurai Blue, who should have seen off Croatia during normal time, losing the shootout 3-1 in dismal fashion.
Montoya had previously alluded to joining Bay FC in a youth-facing role after the club announced he was stepping down as head coach late last season. He told this news organization that Bay FC offered him the role of director of coaching for the club's future youth academy, but he declined, citing a desire to spend more time coaching and watching his son Michael, a junior soccer player at Mountain View High.
