https://www.hochi.co.jp/soccer/national/20180907-OHT1T50278.html J. League could loosen the quota on foreign players next season. If the new...
Chile's squad announced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile_national_football_team#Current_squad
Kashif, Soromon and Ibrahim Junior. Zion Suzuki and Taiga Hata are of African descent too. The number of players with foreign roots in Japanese...
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Kashiwa rejected an offer for Junya Ito from Bundesliga side Fortuna Duesseldorf. Qatar international Ahmed Yasser joined Vissel and became the...
It was their best WC performance ever. Unlike 2010, they tried to play open attacking football and it was successful.
https://www.football-zone.net/archives/110405 expected line-up against Paraguay 4-2-3-1 GK: Higashiguchi DF: Nagatomo, Shoji, Ueda, H. Sakai...
Squad numbers for the Ghana friendly. GK 1 Kawashima 12 Higashiguchi 23 Nakamura DF 2 Endo 3 Shoji 5 Nagatomo 19 H. Sakai 20 Makino 21 G. Sakai...
Many players? The JFA called up 17 oversea players but only 5 players (Kagawa, Okazaki, Ideguchi, Shibasaki and Asano) struggled to get starts...
https://sportiva.shueisha.co.jp/clm/football/wfootball/2018/05/18/post_62/ Sakai said he wan't 100% fit.
https://www.footballchannel.jp/2018/05/15/post269375/ He seems highly rated in Turkey.
I think it's too early to put Doan in the starting line-up. He is talented but attacking stats in the Dutch league aren't reliable anymore. Most...
Osako often played as a midfielder this season, though.
Any chance of Tatsuya Ito making it to the WC squad? He is still a raw 20-year-old talent but he has already beat many Bundesliga defenders with...
Kagawa is injured too. He had been lined up as a starter every week before the injury. French football programme Telefoot have named four...
https://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/world/news/201804010000697.html According to Portimonense president, Nakajima has offers from Atletico Madrid...
Haraguchi is Bundesliga 1 material without a doubt. The reason he was benched at Hertha is because he refused to extend his contract with them to...
I know, but I predict it will be a closer game than last time based on the situation of both teams before the game. Because they sold VVD and...
Japan lost to Colombia 1-4 in 2014 but the scoreline doesn't tell the whole story. Last time it was Japan who was in a must-win mode, so their...
http://www.goal.com/jp/ニュース/中島翔哉今冬の移籍は消滅へスポルティング行きが最終日に浮上も実現せず/vhuerv9g7asf1cpcfmbp1iwcg Nakajima stays at Portimonense. Sporting CP tried to buy...
Morioka will wear #10.
Portimonense rejected €10 million offer for Nakajima from Shakhtar Donetsk!...
Japan is the only U-20 team in the tournament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_AFC_U-23_Championship_squads
Not taking anything away from Uzbekisutan but Japan sent an U-20 side, which lacked more than half of the players who played the U-20 World Cup in...