Japan national football team profile

Japan national football team is the national football team of Japan.Japan, winners of three of the last five editions of the AFC Asian Cup, have high hopes for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.Their fourth appearance at the global showpiece.South Africa 2010 will be Japan's fourth FIFA World Cup finals, and their fourth in a row. Their best finish came as hosts at Korea/Japan 2002, when they topped Group H ahead of Belgium, Russia and Tunisia to advance to the knockout stages for the first and so far only time. Once in the Round of 16 they put in a brave fight only to go down 1-0 against eventual third-place finishers Turkey, the goal coming after 12 minutes from Umit Davala.
Provisional squad list:
GK Yoshikatsu KAWAGUCHI
GK Eiji KAWASHIMA
GK Seigo NARAZAKI
Yuki ABE
Yasuhito ENDO
Makoto HASEBE
Keisuke HONDA
Junichi INAMOTO
Naohiro ISHIKAWA
Daiki IWAMASA
Shinji KAGAWA
Yuichi KOMANO
Yasuyuki KONNO
Ryoichi MAEDA
Tomoaki MAKINO
Daisuke MATSUI
Takayuki MORIMOTO
Yuto NAGATOMO
Kengo NAKAMURA
Shunsuke NAKAMURA
Yuji NAKAZAWA
Mitsuo OGASAWARA
Shinji OKAZAKI
Yoshito OKUBO
Keiji TAMADA
Marcus Tulio TANAKA
Tatsuya TANAKA
Yuhei TOKUNAGA
Atsuto UCHIDA
Kisho YANO

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