The members of the Japan national team, who will face the final qualifying round for the World Cup Asia in soccer starting on the 27th of this month, started practicing in Chiba City on the 24th.
Japan, which will be second in the group in the final Asian qualifying round of the World Cup Qatar soccer tournament, will face China on the 27th of this month and Saudi Arabia on the 1st of next month at Saitama Stadium.
Eighteen athletes, excluding five arriving from Europe on the night of the 24th, participated in the practice of the Japanese national team that started in Chiba City on the 24th.
The players who returned from Europe had a light menu such as running, but the seven people who play in the J League sweated for about an hour and a half by turning passes and practicing shooting, and Yuya Osako entered the cross ball and passed. I was checking how to move from receiving to shooting.
In Japan, while Maya Yoshida and Takehiro Tomiyasu, who have served as center backs as the key to defense, are lacking due to injury, the maintenance of the defense team has become an issue, and Taniguchi who serves as the center back at Kawasaki Frontale. After the whole practice, Shogo was energetically moving, such as repeatedly checking the movement to clear with the heading.
Taniguchi said, "I've prepared for the turn to come. I'll do what I can to win the team. I think it's important to be confident in what you've done so far." Was there.