``If you ask me if everything is going smoothly, I recognize that there are things that are not going smoothly,'' said Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (49), president of the Japan Football Association. On the 8th, when he paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology with coach Hajime Moriyasu (57) and others, he hinted that the appointment of the next Japan national team coach was going through difficulties. After the team lost to Brazil in the first round of the World Cup finals, the association is said to have asked Moriyasu to continue playing for another year, but is pending a response. There are strong calls for further improvement by inviting a foreign coach...