Kaoru Mitoma for Brighton. (Credit: Twitter)
Coach Hajime Moriyasu picked a 26-man squad full of European expertise and mentioned many of the gamers might count on to see some motion.
Japan named a full-strength squad that includes Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma and Real Sociedad’s Takefusa Kubo on Wednesday for the beginning of their 2026 World Cup qualifying marketing campaign towards Myanmar and Syria.
The Blue Samurai, who misplaced on penalties to Croatia within the final 16 of final 12 months’s World Cup in Qatar, face Myanmar in Osaka on November 16 earlier than taking up Syria on impartial floor in Jeddah 5 days later.
Coach Hajime Moriyasu picked a 26-man squad full of European expertise and mentioned many of the gamers might count on to see some motion.
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“There is a chance that we could pick up injuries in these two games so having 26 players should allow us to overcome that,” mentioned Moriyasu, whose crew have additionally been drawn alongside North Korea in qualifying Group B.
“I will look at what condition the players are in and potentially play one group of players in the first game and then another group in the second.”
Arsenal’s Takehiro Tomiyasu, Liverpool’s Wataru Endo and Celtic pair Kyogo Furuhashi and Daizen Maeda had been all named within the squad.
Lazio’s Daichi Kamada returns after lacking pleasant wins over Canada and Tunisia in October.
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Japan have been in red-hot kind for the reason that final World Cup, profitable their final six video games with 24 objectives scored and simply 5 conceded.
That run included convincing away wins over Turkey and Germany, whose coach Hansi Flick misplaced his job after Japan beat his aspect 4-1.
Moriyasu is eager to take that momentum into the World Cup qualifiers and needs to see his crew proceed bettering.
“We want to take six points from these two games and we will prepare as best we can to do so,” he mentioned.
“We want to win and we want to give a performance that will allow us to build for the future.”
Japan squad:
Goalkeepers: Daiya Maekawa (Vissel Kobe), Keisuke Osako (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Zion Suzuki (Sint-Truidense/BEL)
Defenders: Shogo Taniguchi (Al-Rayyan/QAT), Yuta Nakayama (Huddersfield/ENG), Koki Machida (Union SG/BEL), Seiya Maikuma (Gamba Osaka), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal/ENG), Hiroki Ito (Stuttgart/GER), Yukinari Sugawara (AZ/NED)
Midfielders/forwards: Wataru Endo (Liverpool/ENG), Junya Ito (Reims/FRA), Takuma Asano (Bochum/GER), Takumi Minamino (Monaco/FRA), Kyogo Furuhashi (Celtic/SCO), Hidemasa Morita (Sporting/POR), Hayao Kawabe (Standard Liege/BEL), Daichi Kamada (Lazio/ITA), Yuki Soma (Casa Pia/POR), Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton/ENG), Daizen Maeda (Celtic/SCO), Ritsu Doan (Freiburg/GER), Atsuki Ito (Urawa Reds), Ayase Ueda (Feyenoord/NED), Ao Tanaka (Dusseldorf/GER), Takefusa Kubo (Sociedad/ESP)
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated news company feed – AFP)
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