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Friday, March 12, 2010

FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 Japan national football team

                                        Japan national Flag

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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