Head coach Vahid Halilhodzic\u00a0has announced Japan squad of 24 players for their upcoming Kirin Challenge Cup matches against New Zealand and Haiti.<\/p>\n
11 J.League players,\u00a0 including Kashiwa Reysol goalkeeper Kosuke Nakamura and Urawa Reds midfielder Wataru Endo, have been selected for the pair of international friendlies.<\/p>\n
The Kirin Challenge Cup is the series of friendlies played throughout the year in Japan.<\/p>\n
Japan will play New Zealand on October 6 at Toyota Stadium before welcoming Haiti to International Stadium Yokohama on October 10.<\/p>\n
Below is the Japan squad for the October 2017 Kirin Challenge Cup:<\/strong><\/p>\n Goalkeepers (3): Defenders (8): Midfielders (6) Forward (7) Head coach Vahid Halilhodzic\u00a0has announced Japan squad of 24 players for their upcoming Kirin Challenge Cup matches against New Zealand and Haiti. 11 J.League players,\u00a0 including Kashiwa Reysol goalkeeper Kosuke Nakamura and Urawa Reds midfielder Wataru Endo, have been selected for the pair of international friendlies. The Kirin Challenge Cup is the series of friendlies played throughout the year in Japan. Japan will play New Zealand on October 6 at Toyota Stadium before welcoming Haiti to International Stadium Yokohama on October 10. Below is the Japan squad for the October 2017 Kirin Challenge Cup: Goalkeepers (3): Eiji Kawashima (FC Metz \/ France) Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka) Kosuke Nakamura (Kashiwa Reysol) … Continue reading “Japan announce 24-man squad for Kirin Challange Cup”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-7459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEiji Kawashima (FC Metz \/ France)
\nMasaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka)
\nKosuke Nakamura (Kashiwa Reysol)<\/p>\n
\nHiroki Sakai (Marseille \/ France)
\nGotoku Sakai (Hamburger SV \/ Germany)
\nYuto Nagatomo (Inter \/ Italy)
\nShintaro Kurumaya (Kawasaki Frontale)
\nMaya Yoshida (Southampton \/ England)
\nGen Shoji (Kashima Antlers)
\nTomoaki Makino (Urawa Reds)
\nNaomichi Ueda (Kashima Antlers)<\/p>\n
\nHotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka)
\nYosuke Ideguchi (Gamba Osaka)
\nWataru Endo (Urawa Reds)
\nShinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund \/ Germany)
\nShu Kurata (Gamba Osaka)
\nYuki Kobayashi (Heerenveen \/ Netherlands)<\/p>\n
\nYuya Kubo (Gent \/ Belgium)
\nTakuma Asano (Stuttgart \/ Germany)
\nTakashi Inui (Eibar \/ Spain)
\nGenki Haraguchi (Hertha Berlin \/ Germany)
\nYuya Osako (Koln \/ Germany)
\nKenyu Sugimoto (Cerezo Osaka)
\nYoshinori Muto (Mainz \/ Germany)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"