Friday, February 3, 2017

Okano, Japan's organizer of 2002 World Cup, dies at 85 (The Associated Press)

The soccer official who led Japan's organizing committee of the 2002 World Cup has died. Shun-Ichiro Okano was 85. Japan's soccer federation announced on Friday that Okano died from lung cancer on Thursday in a hospital in Tokyo.

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