One year until the opening of the soccer World Cup Is the key to raising the scoring ability of the Japanese national team?

It takes 21 days to start the soccer and World Cup Qatar tournament.

Japan, which is second in the group in the final Asian qualifying round, has decided to participate in seven consecutive tournaments, and raising the scoring ability is likely to be one of the keys to achieving the goal of advancing to the best eight in this tournament.

The first World Cup Qatar tournament in the Middle East will begin on November 21st next year and the final will be held on December 18th.

The World Cup usually takes place from June to July, but due to the harsh heat, it will be held for the first time from November to December since the tournament began in 1930.

Japan, which is facing the final qualifying round in Asia for seven consecutive appearances, had a difficult start to lose to Oman in the first match at home, but won three consecutive victories from last month's match against Australia and unconditionally qualified. We are moving up to 2nd place where we can win.

Japan has 3 goals in the final 6 games of the final qualifying so far, and while it has a sense of stability in defense, it has only 5 goals. It seems to be one of the keys.

Ao Tanaka, 23, scored his first goal against Australia last month, and Kaoru Mitoma, who participated in the middle of the match against Oman on the 16th of this month, assisted the final point. There was also a match that showed a connected activity and sought to win.

After the match against Oman, Moriyasu said, "I want to decide the position battle in a neutral way in the future." , How to use players will be noticed.

The number of participating teams will increase to 48 in 2026.

32 teams will participate in the World Cup Qatar tournament.

In addition to the host country Qatar, Belgium, which is ranked number one in the world in Europe, and France, England, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and Serbia, who won the previous Russian tournament, have already decided to participate.

Brazil and Argentina have qualified in South America.

Regarding the number of participating teams, it has been decided that 48 teams will be held from the tournament co-sponsored by the United States, Canada and Mexico in 2026, and the Qatar tournament will be the last to be held with 32 teams.

The maximum number of slots from Asia is "5" in the Qatar tournament, including those won in the playoffs, but it will increase to "8" in the 2026 tournament.

Also, regarding the World Cup, the FIFA = International Football Federation is considering a plan to change it from once every four years to once every two years, and a meeting will be held on the 20th of next month. I am.