On July 13, Beijing time, the Japanese men's national football team announced the call-up list for the East Asian Cup, all players are from the J League, led by former Arsenal player and currently playing for Yokohama Mariner Ryo Miyaichi, but including Chinese fans familiar with Sho Sasaki, Muto Yoshiki and other players have been selected, led by Japanese national team coach Mori Hoichi.
After China abandoned hosting the East Asian Cup, Japan became the host team for the 2022 East Asian Cup. Originally, the Japanese Football Association planned to let the Age-appropriate team of the Paris Olympic Games, the Japanese U21 National Team, play, but with the emergence of the host, the Japan Football Association finally decided to send the adult national team to play, but all the players are from the Japanese J-League and will not recruit players from Europe.
On July 13, the Japanese Football Association officially announced the 26-man roster, among which the defensive players have many names familiar to Chinese fans, including Sho Sasaki, Akigo Taniguchi, Yamane Shirai, Nakatani Jinnosuke and others.
In the midfield, it includes Ryo Miyaichi, who used to play for Arsenal, and now plays for the J-League giants Yokohama Mariners, but among the Japanese midfielders, there are relatively few well-known players, in addition to Miyaichi Ryo, only Nozuda, Hashimoto, Yuki Soma and Yoshiki Muto have met with Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League.
Japan's first match against Hong Kong football on July 19, and the national football selection team on July 24 will face South Korea in the final round, which may also be the championship battle between the two teams.
Attached: Japan's list of players in the East Asian Cup (including numbers)
Goalkeepers: 1- Keisuke Daiki, 12-Koo Tani, 23-Caiyan Suzuki;
Empress: 19-Sho Sasaki, 3-Akigo Taniguchi, 2-Yamane Akirai, 5-Hatanaka Makiyuki, 25-Koike Ryuta, 4-Nakatani Shunnosuke, 22-Araki Hayato, 24-Ōminami Takuma, 13-Sugitomi Daichi;
Midfielders/Forwards: 18- Kota Mizunuma, 17-Ryo Miyaichi, 7-Takehito Nozuda, 6-Tomoki Iwata, 21-Makoto Manda, 20-Masada Hosoya, 15-Kenji Hashimoto, 14-Taidou Kyosaka, 16-Yuki Soma, 8-Moriji Morishima, 11-Shudou Machino, 26-Fujita Reiki-Chima, 10-Yoshiki Muto, 9-Takuma Nishimura