Maya Yoshida hopes that young players such as Takefusa Kubo, who was selected for the first time on the national team, will “use them as fuel for their growth.”
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Maya Yoshida hopes that young players such as Takefusa Kubo, who was selected for the first time on the national team, will “use them as fuel for their growth.”

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On the 23rd, the Japan Football Association announced the 27 members of the Japanese national team who will compete in the Kirin Challenge Cup to be held in June. Goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima (Strasbourg/France) Shuichi Gonda (Portimonense/Portugal) Schmidt Daniel (Vegalta Sendai) Keisuke Osako (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) ▲ First call-up DF Yuto Nagatomo (Galatasaray/Turkey) Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Reds) Hiroki Sakai (Marseille/France) Gen Masako (Toulouse/France) Sei Muroya (FC Tokyo) Naomichi Ueda (Circle Brugge/Belgium) Makinosuke Hatanaka (Yokohama F. Marinos) Yuta Nakayama (Zwolle/Netherlands) ▲ First call-up Takehiro Tomiyasu (Sint-Truiden/Belgium) MF Shinji Kagawa (Besiktas/Turkey) Genki Haraguchi (Hannover/Germany) Yuki Kobayashi (Heerenveen/Netherlands) Gaku Shibasaki (Getafe/Spain) Junya Ito (Genk/Belgium) Kento Hashimoto (FC Tokyo) Shoya Nakajima (Al Duhail/Qatar) Takumi Minamino (Salzburg/Austria) Hidemasa Morita (Kawasaki Frontale) Ritsu Doan (Groningen/Netherlands) Takefusa Kubo (FC Tokyo) ▲First call-up FW Shinji Okazaki (Leicester/England) Yuya Osako (Bremen/Germany) Musashi Suzuki (Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo)

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