Goal quarterfinals
Germany’s group opponents Japan are traveling to the World Cup in Qatar with a total of eight professionals from the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2. National coach Hajime Moriyasu announced the 26-player squad at a press conference on Tuesday. The squad includes Eintracht Frankfurt’s Daichi Kamada (26), who shares the status of most valuable Japanese player with a market value of 22 million euros with Arsenal’s Takehiro Tomiyasu (23).
In addition to Kamada, Germany also includes Ritsu Doan (24; SC Freiburg), Takuma Asano (27; VfL Bochum), the two VfB pros Wataru Endo (29) and Hiroki Ito (23), Ko Itakura (25; Gladbach) and Maya Yoshida (34; Schalke) and Ao Tanaka (24) from second division Fortuna Düsseldorf to choose from. Tanaka last suffered a knee injury in the game at Holstein Kiel and will be out “until further notice”, according to his club. However, it was “not a serious injury,” Tanaka was quoted as saying. Itakura, out of action since matchday 6 with a knee ligament injury, will go to the World Cup without match practice. The defender was able to train slightly for the first time recently, but coach Daniel Farke ruled out playing for Borussia before the World Cup was interrupted.
Somewhat surprisingly, veteran Genki Haraguchi (31) from leaders Union Berlin and former Bundesliga professional Yuya Osako (32) are not going to the tournament, which takes place from November 20th to December 18th. The attacker, who played for 1. FC Köln and Werder Bremen in Germany, has been back in his home country with Vissel Kobe since last year and has contributed 13 goals and two assists in 34 games in all competitions this year. Ex-BVB professional Shinji Kagawa (33), who had hopes for a third World Cup participation in an interview with Transfermarkt in June, is also not included.
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“Our goal is to at least reach the quarter-finals,” said coach Moriyasu, adding that it “wouldn’t be easy”. In the history of the national team, in the previous six appearances at a World Cup finals, no selection had made it into the last eight. Japan have only survived the group stage three times, including 2018 when they lost to Belgium in the round of 16. Japan meet Germany in their first group game on November 23, before Group E takes on Spain and Costa Rica.
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