to the more eclectic set. Club themes sung before each game are Take Me Home, Country Roads, and during the game. Toy Dolls, Blitzkrieg Bop and other KISS and Twisted Sister songs. Twisted became popular all over the world after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Since it is the hometown of Hirohiko Araki, the writer of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, you can see flags with the same motif Araki portrays his characters in the manga. Michinoku derby Vegalta's traditional rivals are Montedio Yamagata from Yamagata Prefecture. The two have been rivals since meeting in the Tohoku Football League in 1991. Among the Tohoku derbies, this match is famous as the Michinoku derby. Tohoku Derby This is the derby played by the Tohoku region teams, currently the most important match is that of Vegalta Sendai and Montedio Yamagata. Other teams evaluated for this classic are Blaublitz Akita, Iwate Grulla Morioka, Iwaki FC. Record Honours Team awards Tohoku Football League Division 1 Champions (1): 1994 (as Brummell Sendai) Regional League Promotion Series Champions (1): 1994 (as Brummell Sendai) J.League Division 1 Runners-up (1): 2012 4th place (1): 2011 J.League Division 2 Champions (1): 2009 Runners-up (1): 2001 J.League Cup Semi-finalist (1): 2017 Emperor's Cup Runners-up (1): 2018 Semi-finalist (1): 2009 Fair-Play award J1: 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 J2: 2008, 2009 Stadium grass best condition award Sendai Stadium: 2016 Individual awards J. League Best Eleven Wilson: 2012 Valuable Player Award Takuto Hayashi Makoto Kakuda Jiro Kamata: 2011 Takuto Hayashi Taikai Uemoto Makoto Kakuda Jiro Kamata Naoki Sugai Ryang Yong-gi Shingo Akamine: 2012 Simão Mate: 2019 Individual Fair-Play award Yuichi Nemoto: 2003 Ryang Yong-gi: 2011 J.League Monthly MVP Shingo Akamine: 2014 (May) Simão Mate: 2019 (June) Ryoma Kida: 2022 (May) Monthly Best Manager Susumu Watanabe: 2019 (June) Masato Harasaki: 2022 (May) Monthly Best Goal Ryang Yong-gi: 2015 Crislan: 2017 J.League Cup Award Takuma Nishimura: 2017 TAG Heuer YOUNG GUNS Award Takuma Nishimura: 2017 Ko Itakura: 2018 J.League Cup Top Scorer Crislan: 2017 J2 League Top Scorer Marcos: 2001 Borges: 2006 Meritorious Player Award Norio Omura: 2009 Atsushi Yanagisawa: 2015 Hisato Satō: 2021 Makoto Kakuda, Naoki Ishihara, Yoshiki Takahashi: 2022 Players Current squad .'' Famous players and coaches Edmar 1995–1997 Pierre Littbarski 1996–1997 Branko Elsner 1997 Teruo Iwamoto 2001–2003 Hajime Moriyasu 2002–2003 Zdenko Verdenik 2003–2004 Ryang Yong-gi 2004–2019, 2022- Goce Sedloski 2004 Joel Santana 2006 Thiago Neves 2006 Humberlito Borges 2006 Makoto Teguramori 2008–2013, 2021 Atsushi