FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 Japan national football team

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Japan national football team :

The Japan national football team is the national football team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association.Takeshi Okada, who had previously served as the manager for Japan leading up to and during the 1998 FIFA World Cup is the current coach for the team. The Japanese team is commonly known by the fans and media as Soccer Nippon Daihyo or Nippon Daihyo,  Daihyo  as abbreviated expressions. Although the team does not have an official nickname as such, it is often known by the name of the manager. For example, under Ivica Osim, the team was known as Osim Japan. Recently the team has been known or nicknamed as "Samurai Blue." 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.

 

Japan national  football Team configuration  

Association	Japan Football Association
Nickname(s)	Samurai Blue Japanese Representatives (of soccer) , (Sakka) Nippon Daihyo) Okada Japan (Okada Japan)
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)
Elo ranking	31
Highest Elo ranking	8 (August 2001, March 2002)
Lowest Elo ranking	112 (September 1962)

Players

List of England national football  Players : 

Position	Player	Age	Caps	Goals
Goalkeepers:	Seigo Narazaki	33	74	0
	Eiji Kawashima	26	8	0
Defender :	Yuji Nakazawa(C)	32	101	17
	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	28	37	7
	Yuichi Komano	28	51	0
	Yasuyuki Konno	27	34	0
	Yuto Nagatomo	23	22	3
	Atsuto Uchida	21	31	1
Midfielder :	Shunsuke Nakamura	31	94	24
	Junichi Inamoto	30	78	5
	Yasuhito Endo	30	90	8
	Daisuke Matsui	28	22	1
	Yuki Abe	28	41	3
	Makoto Hasebe	26	28	1
	Keisuke Honda	23	12	4
Forward:	Keiji Tamada	29	67	16
	Sota Hirayama	24	4	3
	Shinji Okazaki	23	24	16
	Shinzo Koroki	23	10	0
	Takayuki Morimoto	21	3	1

Top goalscorers for japan : 

Years	Name	Goals
1964–1977	Kunishige Kamamoto	75
1992–2000	Kazuyoshi Miura	55
1978–1988	Hiromi Hara	37
1992–1997	Takuya Takagi	27
1979–1986	Kazushi Kimura	26
2000–	Shunsuke Nakamura	24
2000–2008	Naohiro Takahara	23
1990–2003	Masashi Nakayama	21
1961–1971	Teruki Miyamoto	19
1998–2006	Atsushi Yanagisawa	17
1999–	Yuji Nakazawa	17

Most capped players :

Years	Name	Caps
1988–1999	Masami Ihara	122
1997–2008	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	116
1999–	Yuji Nakazawa	101
2000–	Shunsuke Nakamura	94
2002–	Yasuhito Endo	90
1990–2000	Kazuyoshi Miura	89
2002–2006	Alessandro dos Santos	82
1980–1995	Satoshi Tsunami	80
2000–	Junichi Inamoto	78
1997–2006	Hidetoshi Nakata	77

Honors of Japan national football team :

International


* Summer Olympics :


                     Bronze Medal (1): 1968


* FIFA Confederations Cup :


                   Runners-Up (1): 2001

Regional

  
* AFC Asian Cup :


               Champions (3): 1992, 2000, 2004


               Fourth Place (1): 2007


   
* East Asian Football Championship


              Runners-Up (3): 2003, 2005, 2008


             Third Place (1): 2010