Japan World Cup roster announced with 20 players for European clubs

Original title: Japan World Cup roster announced 20 people to play for European clubs

Japan men’s football coach Mori Baoichi announced the list of players participating in the Qatar World Cup on the 1. Among the 26 players selected, 20 are in European clubs.

Moribao read the roster at a press conference held by the Japan Football Association on the same day. Among the players selected, seven players played in the Bundesliga, including Monchengladbach, who missed the national team’s two warm-up games at the end of September. due to the injury of the team Defender Itakura and Bochum striker Asano Takuma. There are three players in Ligue 1, two in the Premier League, one in La Liga, one in the Portuguese Super League, one in the Suzhou Super League, and two in the Belgian Serie A. Six players are from the Japanese domestic league, and the other three players are from the Western Division, British Championship and German Bundesliga.

“There are so many good players in every position to choose from, so it is very difficult to make this list,” Moribaoichi said at the press conference. “Our goal in the World Cup is to reach the quarter-finals at least. Of course . . , it is not easy to reach this goal.”

Japan are in Group E at the World Cup with Germany, Spain and Costa Rica. Germany and Spain have won the World Cup and Costa Rica reached the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup.

The Japanese team will reportedly travel to Doha on November 9, play the final warm-up match with Canada in Dubai on the 17th, and then face Germany, the first opponent in the World Cup, on the 23rd.

Japan World Cup Squad:

Goalkeepers: Eiji Kawashima (Strasbourg/Ligue 1), Shuichi Gonda (Shimizu Heartbeat/Nikkei), Daniel Schmidt (Saint-Tuerden/Beijing)

Defenders: Nagato Yuto (Tokyo Team/Nijia), Yoshida Maya (Shalke 04/Bundesliga), Sakai Hiroki (Urawa Red Diamonds/Nijia), Taniguchi Shogo (Kawasaki Frontale/Nijia), Yamane Shi Lai (Kawasaki Frontale/Nikkei), Nakayi Yuta (Huddersfield/British Championship), Fuan Jianyang (Arsenal/Premier League), Ito Hiroki (Stergart/Bundesliga), Itakura (Monchengla) Debach/Bundesliga)

Midfielders: Shibaizaki (Leganés / Second Division), Endo (Stuttgart / Bundesliga), Junya Ito (Reims / Ligue 1), Takumi Minamino (Monaco / Ligue 1), Morita Hidema Sports Team (Portugal) / Portuguese Super League), Kamada Daichi (Frankfurt / Bundesliga), Soma Yuki (Nagoya Whales / Nikkei), Mika Kaoru (Brighton / Premier League), Doanru (Freiburg / Bundesliga), Tanaka Bi (Düsseldorf / 2nd Bundesliga), Takehide Kubo (Real Sociedad / La Liga )

Forwards: Maeda Daran (Celtic/Su Chao), Ueda Yoshie (Bruges/Beijing), Asano Takuma (Bochum/Bundesliga) (Zhijiang Yang Ting)