TOKYO, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — The Japan Football Association introduced a 30-player squad for his or her World Cup warmup matches in opposition to the United States and Ecuador in Dusseldorf, Germany later this month.
Most of the Japanese gamers are from European golf equipment, together with Arsenal’s Takehiro Tomiyasu, Schalke’s Maya Yoshida, Stuttgart’s Hiroki Ito and Wataru Endo, and a trio of Celtic stars of Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate.
But head coach Hajime Moriyasu needed to drop Borussia Monchengladbach defender Ko Itakura and Bochum ahead Takuma Asano, as each are resting after struggling knee ligament accidents and are uncertain for the World Cup.
Japan will play the United States on September 23 and Ecuador on September 27, earlier than assembly Canada in Dubai on November 17 for his or her final World Cup warmup recreation.
Following is the squad:
Goalkeepers: Eiji Kawashima (Strasbourg/France), Shuichi Gonda (Shimizu S-Pulse/Japan), Daniel Schmidt (Sint-Truiden/Belgium), Kosei Tani (Shonan Bellmare/Japan)
Defenders: Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo/Japan), Maya Yoshida (Schalke/Germany), Hiroki Sakai (Urawa Reds/Japan), Shogo Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale/Japan), Miki Yamane (Kawasaki Frontale/Japan), Yuta Nakayama (Huddersfield Town/England), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal/England), Hiroki Ito (VfB Stuttgart/Germany), Ayumu Seko (Grasshoppers/Switzerland)
Midfielders/Forwards: Genki Haraguchi (Union Berlin/Germany), Gaku Shibasaki (Leganes/Spain), Wataru Endo (Stuttgart/Germany), Junya Ito (Stade de Reims/France), Takumi Minamino (Monaco/France), Kyogo Furuhashi (Celtic/Scotland), Hidemasa Morita (Sporting Lisbon/Portugal), Daichi Kamada (Eintracht Frankfurt/Germany), Yuki Soma (Nagoya Grampus/Japan), Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton/England), Daizen Maeda (Celtic/Scotland), Reo Hatate (Celtic/Scotland), Ritsu Doan (FC Freiburg/Germany), Ayase Ueda (Cercle Brugge/Belgium), Ao Tanaka (Fortuna Dusseldorf/Germany), Shuto Machino (Shonan Bellmare/Japan), Takefusa Kubo (Real Sociedad/Spain)