How an entire football club was lost to the 2011 Japan earthquake

TEPCO Mareeze were challengers at the top of the Nadeshiko League going into 2011, but the tragic earthquake and subsequent tsunami wiped the club off the map.

TEPCO Mareeze were one of the top sides in Japan heading into the 2011 season.

Japan winning the 2011 Women’s World Cup wasn’t just a great story for the fact it was considered a huge shock around the world.

They had not bypassed the group stage on any of their previous three attempts and had only once reached the quarter-finals, so their penalty shoot-o…