U23 Portugal camp roster announced. GK: Taichi Sugimoto, Ayumi Niekawa, Kosuke Nakamura DF: Ryosuke Yamanaka, Masashi Kamekawa, Tatsuki Nara, Takuya Iwanami, Sai van Wermeskerken, Naomichi Ueda, Shinnosuke Nakatani MF: Ryota Oshima, Wataru Endo, Riki Harakawa, Shoya Nakajima, Yuta Toyokawa, Takumi Minamino, Takahiro Sekine, Yosuke Ideguchi FW: Yuya Kubo, Takeshi Kanamori, Takuma Asano, Daichi Kamada
Yes, Yamanaka replaced by another Reysol player Akino. 【U－23代表情報】U－23代表、大島と浅野がケガで辞退…小泉とオナイウを代替招集https://t.co/dvwQ9a9OJiU－23日本代表は21日からポルトガル遠征に臨みます。 pic.twitter.com/QZclSV2Ruf— サッカーキング (@SoccerKingJP) March 21, 2016
Any interesting players to watch in the current roster playing in the ongoing AFC u-23 Asian cup qualifications?
2022 AFC U23 championship draw: 20222 #AFCU23 championship draw:Group A:Uzbekistan 🇺🇿 Iran 🇮🇷 Qatar 🇶🇦 Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 Group B:Australia 🇦🇺 Jordan 🇯🇴 Iraq 🇮🇶 Kuwait 🇰🇼 Group C:South Korea 🇰🇷 Thailand 🇹🇭 Vietnam 🇻🇳 Malaysia 🇲🇾 Group D:Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 UAE 🇦🇪 Japan 🇯🇵Tajikistan 🇹🇯 pic.twitter.com/pCOgyMArEJ— Samurai Warrior (@SamuraiWarrio17) February 17, 2022 The tournament will be held in Uzbekistan from 1-19 June 2022.
The same old adversaries, KSA & UAE. Anyway, good luck in this tournament. The one after it is more important since it acts as 2024 Olympics qualifier.
https://www.jfa.jp/eng/news/00029216/ U-21 Japan National Team squad - Dubai Cup U-23 (3/23-29＠Dubai, UAE) Squad GK 1 KOKUBO Leobrian (SL Benfica/Portugal) *1 23 SASAKI Masato (Kashiwa Reysol) 12 SUZUKI Zion (Urawa Red Diamonds) DF 17 NARUSE Shumpei (Nagoya Grampus) 18 UCHINO Takashi (Fortuna Dusseldorf/Germany) *1 21 OHATA Ayumu (Urawa Red Diamonds) 2 NISHIO Ryuya (Cerezo Osaka) 16 KIMURA Seiji (Montedio Yamagata) *3 14 KATO Hijiri (V-Varen Nagasaki) *2 3 BABA Seiya (Tokyo Verdy) 4 HANDA Riku (Montedio Yamagata) *3 25 SUZUKI Kaito (Tochigi SC) *2 27 CHASE Anrie (Shoshi High School) MF 24 MATSUMURA Yuta (Kashima Antlers) 15 KAWASAKI Sota (Kyoto Sanga FC) 10 SAITO Koki (Lommel SK/Belgium) *1 26 AYUKAWA Shun (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 7 YAMAMOTO Rihito (Tokyo Verdy) 6 FUJITA Joel Chima (Yokohama F. Marinos) 5 TANAKA Satoshi (Shonan Bellmare) 13 MATSUKI Kuryu (FC Tokyo) *4 20 KODA Hidemasa (Nagoya Grampus) *4 FW 22 FUJIO Shota (Tokushima Vortis) *4 19 ODA Yutaro (Vissel Kobe) 11 HOSOYA Mao (Kashiwa Reysol) 9 SUZUKI Yuito (Shimizu S-Pulse) 8 ARAKI Ryotaro (Kashima Antlers) *1 Will join and leave the team in Dubai *2 Will join the team in Dubai on Tuesday 22 March *3 Will join the team in Dubai on Tuesday 22 March and leave the team on Sunday 27 March *4 Will leave the team on Sunday 27 March
Apart from Taichi Sugimoto and Sai van Wermeskerken most of these players are not doing bad in their senior careers.
Van Wermeskerken is a starting-level fullback in the Eredivisie. I think he is doing ok given the U-23 / U-21 level for top European countries often contain a number of players who end up settling around the 2nd division level.
I think it should be discussed here, because these matches/competitions are all supposed to be a build-up to the 2024 Olympics. https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/road-to-paris-olympics-2024.2116774/
According to this website: https://www.goalzz.com/?c=23623 The next opponent will be KSA. This tournament's format is confusing, not traditional by any means.
1-0 over KSA. Not sure if this is the last match for the team (it says 29th is the last day), and going by results, they should win the tournament as they have won all their games.