The 2008 Suruga Bank Championship ( ja, スルガ銀行チャンピオンシップ2008; es, Copa Suruga Bank 2008) is the inaugural match between the winners of the previous season's

J. League Cup The is a Japanese Association football, football (soccer) competition organized by J.League. It has been sponsored by Yamazaki Biscuits (YBC) of Yamazaki Baking (formerly Yamazaki Nabisco) since its inception in 1992. It is also known as the or ...

and the Copa Sudamericana. It was contested by the 2007 J. League Cup winner Japanese club

Gamba Osaka is a Japanese professional football club based in Suita, Osaka Prefecture. The club plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. The club's name ''Gamba'' comes from the Japanese , meaning "to do your best" or "to s ...

and the

2007 Copa Sudamericana The 2007 edition of the Copa Sudamericana was played by 34 teams; 30 teams from the CONMEBOL and 4 teams from the CONCACAF. CONMEBOL organized the tournament and invited three North American clubs which were the best three of the CONCACAF Champ ...

champion Argentine club Arsenal. The match was won by Arsenal after a late second-half header by Carlos Casteglione off a

corner kick A corner kick is the method of restarting play in a game of association football when the ball goes out of play over the goal line, without a goal being scored and having last been touched by a member of the defending team. The kick is take ...

by Javier Yacuzzi.

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Official page on CONMEBOL's siteFull reportAll about 2008 Suruga Bank Championship
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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

2008 in Japanese football Arsenal de Sarandí matches Gamba Osaka matches