Germany Beach Soccer National Team arrive in Japan on Thursday 13 April to participate in the two-day event between Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 at the Nishihara Kirakira Beach in Okinawa where they are scheduled to play a pair of international friendly matches against Japan.

Arriving at Naha Airport, Okinawa Prefecture and Okinawa Football Association held a welcome ceremony for the players and staff of the Germany National Team. They were all heartened by the warm welcome received by the hosting city. After the ceremony, German internationals without showing fatigue from the long travel headed for their hotel by bus.

Germany Beach Soccer National Team will hold an official practice on Friday 14 and prepare of the two upcoming international friendly matches scheduled over the weekend.

Coach’s and Players’ Comments

Sebastian Ullrich, Coach
Looking at the video footage of Japan National Team from the World Cup Qualifiers (AFC Championship), I get an impression that they have made significant progress on their team in recent months. Above all, their quality of finishing looked superb. We will be facing formidable opponents, but we have been preparing ourselves by going through a pair of training camps as well. Furthermore, we invited two new members to improve the team. I expect us to have excellent matches against Japan over the weekend.

FP #7 Christian Biermann
Our national team have been training for the last two months and working hard to improve the team. We haven’t played against Japan in the past, and thus we are not fully aware of the specifics of their game style, but I’ve been informed that they are a potent team qualified for coming World Cup. On their squad, Moriera Ozu stands out being one of the top players in the world. I am looking forward to the upcoming matches.

FP #9 Sascha Weirauch
We are in excellent form for the Japan Tour. Germany National Team have a good balance between offence and defence. Being one of the top 10 teams in the world, Japan are formidable opponents, but we will try to display our strengths and win the coming matches.

Coach

Sebastian Ullrich

Squad

GK
12　Moritz Westkämper
1　Toni Müller

FP
8　Oliver Romrig
13　Christoph Thürk
3　Anton Kniller
17　Manuel Mönch
9　Sascha Weirauch
15　Tim Schmitt
6　Valon Beqiri
7　Christian Biermann
2　Tim Engelhardt

JFA-TV(Japanese version only)

Schedule

*The schedule may be subject to change due to the team condition, the weather, etc.

International Friendly Match

1st 2017-4-15(Sat.) 14:00 (estimated time), 2nd 2017-4-16(Sun.) 14:00 (estimated time)
Japan Beach Soccer National Team vs Germany Beach Soccer National Team
Okinawa/Nishihara Kirakira Beach
Match Information