The French Baseball Softball Federation (FFBS) has officially announced the international baseball tournament “Yoshida Challenge”. It will be played from September 5 to 9, 2014 at the Templiers Senart facility just south of Paris. It will serve as European Championship preparation for the participating teams France, Netherlands and Belgium. The fourth contestant will be a squad from Japan. The tournament has been created as tourney dedicated to former French national team manager Yoshio Yoshida. He was their coach from 1989 to 1995 and helped them qualifying for the first time for the Baseball World Cup in 1994.

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