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Japan name FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 squad but without veterans Haraguchi and Osako

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PSV's Dutch forward Cody Gakpo (L) fights for the ball with Arsenal's Japanese defender Takehiro Tomiyasu (R) during the UEFA Europa League group A fifth leg football match between PSV Eindhoven and Arsenal, at the Phillips stadium in Eindhoven, on October 27, 2022. (Photo by Olaf Kraak / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT

Japan's national football team manager Hajime Moriyasu speaks to officially announce the members of Japan's 2022 World Cup squad headed to Qatar, during a press conference in Tokyo on November 1, 2022. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)

Japan's national football team manager Hajime Moriyasu (C) speaks as Japan Football Association chairman Kozo Tashima (R) and JFA technical coach Yasuharu Sorimachi (L) listen on during a press conference to officially announce the members of Japan's 2022 World Cup squad headed to Qatar, in Tokyo on November 1, 2022. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)

Qatar Tribune

Nov 02, 2022

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Japan’s national team coach Hajime Moriyasu named their 26-man squad for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, with Arsenal’s Takehiro Tomiyasu and Brighton’s Kaoru Mitoma included.

There is no place, however, for Celtic duo Kyogo Furuhashi and Reo Hatate.

Furuhashi, 27, has scored eight goals in 10 Scottish Premiership matches for Celtic this season but will not add to the 16 Japan caps he has won since making his debut in 2019.

Among other long-time veterans, midfielder Genki Haraguchi and forward Yuya Osako, both of whom appeared at the previous World Cup in Russia, will not travel to the competition this time.

Osako also played in Brazil in 2014.

Meanwhile, Moriyasu will take seven Bundesliga players to the World Cup: Ritsu Doan (Freiburg), Daichi Kamada (Eintracht Frankfurt), Takuma Asano (Bochum), Wataru Endo and Hiroki Ito (both VfB Stuttgart), Ko Itakura (Borussia Mönchengladbach) and Maya Yoshida (34/Schalke 04).

Japan have been drawn in Group E at the World Cup and will take on Germany, Spain and Costa Rica. They will also face Canada in a friendly match on November 17, six days before their opening game against Germany.

Japan will also be the first squad to arrive in Qatar on November 7, ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2022 which begins November 20.

"Our goal is to reach at least the quarter-finals. This won’t be easy,” Moriyasu said.Japan’s World Cup squad

GoalkeeperscColor:> Shuichi Gonda (Shimizu S-Pulse), Daniel Schmidt (Sint-Truiden), Eiji Kawashima (Strasbourg).

Defenders: Miki Yamane (Kawasaki Frontale), Hiroki Sakai (Urawa Reds), Maya Yoshida (Schalke), Takehiro Tomiyasu (Arsenal), Shogo Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale), Ko Itakura (Borussia Monchengladbach), Hiroki Ito (Stuttgart), Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo), Yuta Nakayama (Huddersfield Town).

Midfielders: Wataru Endo (Stuttgart), Hidemasa Morita (Sporting Lisbon), Ao Tanaka (Fortuna Dusseldorf), Gaku Shibasaki (Leganes), Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton), Daichi Kamada (Eintracht Frankfurt), Ritsu Doan (Freiburg), Junya Ito (Stade Reims), Takumi Minamino (AS Monaco), Takefusa Kubo Real Sociedad), Yuki Soma (Nagoya Grampus).

Forwards: Daizen Maeda (Celtic), Takuma Asano (Bochum), Ayase Ueda (Cercle Bruges).

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