The first national football team in the round of 18, Japan announced a list of 27 players: 20 internationals in Europe! Junya Ito returns

On August 29, Beijing time, in order to prepare for the first two rounds of the round of 18, the Japan men's national football team announced the latest list of 27-man internationals, compared with the Chinese men's football team 0 people staying in the foreign league, the Japan men's football team as many as 20 people staying in the European League.

Captain Nagado, who plays for Premier League giants Liverpool, leads the way. Kaoru Mikasa and Kenei Kubo were also successfully selected. And the much-talked-about winger Jun Ito has returned, finally returning to the Japan national team for the first time after seven months. This is obviously not a good thing for the Chinese men's football team.

In the round of 18, Japan is in a group with Australia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, China and Indonesia. It is reported that the Japan men's football team will assemble the team on September 2, only 3 days of training time, at 18:35 on September 5, the Japan men's football team will face the Chinese men's football team in the first round of the round of 18, sitting at Saitama 2002 Stadium, and on September 11, it will play away against Bahrain in the second round.

Historically, the Chinese men's football team has met Japan 23 times, with 6 wins, 6 draws and 11 losses. The last time China defeated Japan was in 1998, 26 years after now. Since then, the national football team has played 13 matches against the Japan men's football team, with only 6 draws and 7 losses. The Chinese team suffered a double defeat of Japan 0-1 at home and 0-2 away in the last World Preliminary Tournament.

Attached: The latest list of 27 players in the Japan men's football team

Goalkeeper:

Keisuke Osako (Hiroshima), Akio Tani (Machida Zevia), Ayaka Suzuki (Parma)

Fullback:

Yuto Nagatomo (Tokyo FC), Shogo Taniguchi (Sint-Truiden), Itakura Kuru (Borussia Monxing), Yuta Nakayama (Machida Zevia), Machida Hiroki (Royal Saint-Gilloise), Sugawara Yusei (Southampton), Mochizuki Henry Haihui (Machida Zevia), Takai Yuta (Kawasaki Frontale)

Midfield:

Endo (Liverpool), Junya Ito (Reims), Takuma Asano (Mallorca), Takumi Minamino (Monaco), Hidemasa Morita (Sporting Portugal), Daichi Kamada (Crystal Palace), Kaoru Mikasa (Brighton), Ogawa Hangki (Nijmegen), Dairan Maeda (Celtic), Bannerman Reio (Celtic), Ritsu Doan (Freiburg), Kiyo Ueda (Feyenoord), Bi Tanaka (Fortundorf), Keito Nakamura (Reims), Hisashi Hisaka (Real Sociedad), Shindai Hosoya (Kashiwa Suns)