Staff

Coach: Miguel RODRIGO (JFA National Coahing Staff)
Physical Coach: MURAOKA Makoto (Free Physical Coach)
Assistant Coach/Interpreter: KOMORI Takahiro (JFA National Coahing Staff)

Squad

GK
FUJIWARA Jun (BARDRAL URAYASU)
TANAKA Toshinori (FUCHU ATHLETIC F.C.)
SEKIGUCHI Yushi (ESPOLADA HOKKAIDO)

FP
MORIOKA Kaoru (NAGOYA OCEANS)
INABA Kotaro (FUGADOR SUMIDA)
SAKAI Rafael Yoshio (NAGOYA OCEANS)
OSODO Nobuya (SHRIKER OSAKA)
HOSHI Shota (BARDRAL URAYASU)
SATO Toru (SHRIKER OSAKA)
NISHITANI Ryosuke (FUGADOR SUMIDA)
WATANABE Tomoaki (DALIAN YUANCHAO/China)
TAKITA Manabu (PESCADOLA MACHIDA)
MINAMOTO Akira (FUCHU ATHLETIC F.C.)
NIBUYA Kazuhiro (VASAGEY OITA)
SHIBANO Sota (VASAGEY OITA)
KATO Ryuma (BARDRAL URAYASU)
MUROTA Yuki (ESPOLADA HOKKAIDO)
SHIMIZU Kazuya (FUGADOR SUMIDA)

Players Change (9/28)

HOSHI Shota
FP   Club: BARDRAL URAYASU　Changed due to the Unwell Physical Condition

MUROTA Yuki
FP   Club: ESPOLADA HOKKAIDO   Sidelined due to injury

SHIMIZU Kazuya
FP   Club: FUGADOR SUMIDA   Changed due to the Unwell Physical Condition

NAKAMURA Yusuke
FP   Club: NAGOYA OCEANS   DOB: 6 October 1986   154cm/54kg

MORI Shuta
FP   Club: SHRIKER OSAKA   DOB: 26 May 1990   162cm/61kg

UEMATSU Koto
FP   Club: SHONAN BELLMARE   DOB: 18 January 1998   169cm/64kg
*UEMATSU selected for Japan National Team (short-listed) for the first time

Miguel RODRIGO Coach Comment

During the run-up since June this year to the next year's AFC Championship, we had training matches against Vietnam and Malaysia. Looking back those matches, this upcoming AFC Championship seems to be going to be as competitive as we've never seen in the past. The reason for that is high-grade coaches are helping out those Asian countries and the level among them is getting closer to better teams in Asia.

As acknowledging such a situation, we are trying to brush up our competency and performance as a team to the maximum, ultimate level in order to be in excellent condition. There is, of course, the Asian treble further ahead, which I and my players have big expectation and ambition on. We will thoroughly pursue it.

With such an ambition and the challenges to brush up the quality of the team, we will continue to have training camps following the past two training matches and at the end play a friendly against world-class powerhouse next January before heading for the AFC Championship.

Schedule

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