Japan have announced the 25-man squad for the friendlies against\u00a0Brazil and Belgium\u00a0on November 10 and 14 respectively.<\/p>\n
Notably,\u00a0head coach Vahid Halilhodzic decided to omit star trio Shinji Kagawa, Shinji Okazaki and Keisuke Honda out of the squad.<\/p>\n
Other notable absentees include Mainz striker Yoshinori Muto and Heerenveen midfielder Yuki Kobayashi.<\/p>\n
Japan secured their ticket at next year’s World Cup with the\u00a0top spot in Group B of Asia’s qualifying campaign for Russia 2018.<\/p>\n
Full 25-man squad:<\/em><\/p>\n Goalkeepers:<\/strong>\u00a0Eiji Kawashima (Metz), Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka), Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)<\/p>\n Defenders:<\/strong>\u00a0Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan), Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Red Diamonds), Maya Yoshida (Southampton), Hiroki Sakai (Marseille), Gotoku Sakai (Hamburg), Shintaro Kurumaya (Kawasaki Frontale), Gen Shoji (Kashima Antlers), Genta Miura (Gamba Osaka)<\/p>\n Midfielders:<\/strong>\u00a0Makoto Hasebe (Eintracht Frankfurt), Shu Kurata (Gamba Osaka), Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka), Ryota Morioka (Waasland-Beveren), Kazuki Nagasawa, Wataru Endo (both Urawa Red Diamonds), Yosuke Ideguchi (Gamba Osaka)<\/p>\n Forwards:<\/strong>\u00a0Shinzo Koroki (Urawa Red Diamonds), Takashi Inui (Eibar), Yuya Osako (Cologne), Genki Haraguchi (Hertha Berlin), Kenyu Sugimoto (Cerezo Osaka), Yuya Kubo (Gent), Takuma Asano (Stuttgart)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Japan have announced the 25-man squad for the friendlies against\u00a0Brazil and Belgium\u00a0on November 10 and 14 respectively. Notably,\u00a0head coach Vahid Halilhodzic decided to omit star trio Shinji Kagawa, Shinji Okazaki and Keisuke Honda out of the squad. Other notable absentees include Mainz striker Yoshinori Muto and Heerenveen midfielder Yuki Kobayashi. Japan secured their ticket at next year’s World Cup with the\u00a0top spot in Group B of Asia’s qualifying campaign for Russia 2018. Full 25-man squad: Goalkeepers:\u00a0Eiji Kawashima (Metz), Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka), Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds) Defenders:\u00a0Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan), Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Red Diamonds), Maya Yoshida (Southampton), Hiroki Sakai (Marseille), Gotoku Sakai (Hamburg), Shintaro Kurumaya (Kawasaki Frontale), Gen … Continue reading “Japanese star players Kagawa, Okazaki and Honda to miss out Brazil and Belgium friendlies”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[382,225,551,332],"class_list":["post-8369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-keisuke-honda","tag-shinji-kagawa","tag-vahid-halilhodzic","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369","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=8369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}