FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 Japan national football team

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The Japan national football team is is controlled by the Japan Football Association.
Takeshi Okada, the manager for Japan who had previously served as leading during the 1998 FIFA World Cup is the current coach for the team. Japan's first major achievement in international football came in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Japan is one of the highest sponsorship incomes for a national squad. Their sponsorship income amounted to over 16.5 million pounds In 2006. Primary sponsors include Kirin, Adidas, Sony, Saison Card International, FamilyMart, Fujifilm, JAL, and Nissan.
Japan is one of the most successful national teams in Asia, being a three-time winner of the Asian Cup and having qualified for the last four consecutive World Cup finals.

Team configuration

Nickname	Samurai Blue Japanese Representatives (of soccer) (Sakkā) Nippon Daihyō?) Okada Japan Okada Japan
Association	Japan Football Association
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Takeshi Okada
Captain	Yuji Nakazawa
Most caps	Masami Ihara (123)
Top scorer	Kunishige Kamamoto (75)
FIFA code	JPN
FIFA ranking	46
Highest FIFA ranking	9 (February 1998)
Lowest FIFA ranking	62 (February 2000)

Current players of Japan

18 GK Seigo Narazaki 23 GK Eiji Kawashima

22 DF Yuji Nakazawa (C) 4 DF Marcus Tulio Tanaka 3 DF Yūichi Komano 15 DF Yasuyuki Konno 25 DF Yuto Nagatomo 20 DF Atsuto Uchida

10 MF Shunsuke Nakamura 5 MF Junichi Inamoto 7 MF Yasuhito Endō] 8 MF Daisuke Matsui 6 MF Yuki Abe 17 MF Makoto Hasebe 57 MF Keisuke Honda

11 FW Keiji Tamada 81 FW Sōta Hirayama 33 FW Shinji Okazaki 19 FW Shinzo Koroki 59 FW Takayuki Morimoto

Top Goalscorers of Japan

Player	Goals	Tenure
Kunishige Kamamoto	75	1964–1977
Kazuyoshi Miura	55	1992–2000
Hiromi Hara	37	1978–1988
Takuya Takagi	27	1992–1997
Kazushi Kimura	26	1979–1986
Shunsuke Nakamura	24	2000–
Naohiro Takahara	23	2000–2008
Masashi Nakayama	21	1990–2003
Teruki Miyamoto	19	1961–1971
Atsushi Yanagisawa Yuji Nakazawa	17 17	1998–2006 1999–

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