The Japanese national soccer team will play a warm-up match with Canada, who will participate in the tournament, just before the opening as part of strengthening for the World Cup starting in November this year.
The World Cup Qatar soccer tournament will start on November 20th, and Japan, who are in Group E in the first league, will face Germany in their first match on the 23rd.
Coach Hajime Moriyasu of the Japan national team has indicated that he intends to play warm-up games just before the tournament to refine tactics, etc., and the Japan Football Association will participate in the main tournament on the 17th, six days before the match against Germany. We have decided to play a warm-up match against Canada.
The match will be held in UAE = United Arab Emirates.
While Japan is ranked 24th in the world, Canada is ranked 43rd in the world, and is in Group F along with Belgium and others at this tournament.
Japan have faced each other in international tournaments and warm-up games in 2001 and 2013, and have won each time.
Japan will play warm-up matches against the United States on the 23rd and Ecuador on the 27th of this month, and they will play three warm-up matches in about two months before the start of the season.