Coach Oiwa, who leads the Japan under-22 males’s soccer workforce aiming for the Paris Olympics, advised NHK in an interview with one 12 months earlier than the match, saying, “I want to keep winning by valuing each and every match, aiming for the gold medal.”
At the Paris Olympics subsequent summer time, the primary males’s soccer match might be held on July 24, two days earlier than the opening ceremony.
The Japan nationwide workforce beneath the age of twenty-two performed eight warm-up matches with European powerhouses from September final 12 months to June this 12 months, and though they had been forward of the loss with 2 wins, 3 losses and three attracts, they received towards England and Portugal.