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Japan World Cup 2006

Team profile - Japan
Capital City- Tokyo
Continent- Asia
Manager- Zico
Captain- Tsuneyasu Miyamoto. Tsuneyasu is currently playing for Gamba Osaka
Star Man- Hidetoshi Nakata who currently plays in the English Premier League with Bolton on a loan deal is considered to be the best player to have ever come out of Japan however, a new star man is developing who goes by the name of Shunsuke Nakamura who is currently playing for Celtic in the Scottish Premier League.

How did they qualify - Japan National Football team qualified quite comfortably from the second stage of their qualifying rounds. They were in a group consisting of: Oman, India and Singapore. They finished 8 points clear of their nearest challengers Oman winning every game. The Japanese team found the third stage a little more tricky only finishing 3 points clear of their nearest challengers Iran. The whole of the third group consisted of: Iran, Bahrain and South Korea.

Team History
First International: Japan 0 - 5 China (Tokyo, Japan; May 9, 1917)
Largest win: Japan 15 - 0 Philippines (Tokyo, Japan; September 27, 1967)
Worst defeat: Japan 2 - 15 Philippines (Tokyo, Japan; September 10, 1917)
World Cup
Appearances:		 3 (First in 1998) Best result Round 2, 2002
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances:		 5 (First in 1988) Best result Winners, 1992, 2000, 2004
World Cup Record: 1930 - Did not enter
1934 - Did not enter
1938 - Withdrew
1950 - Did not enter
1954 - Did not qualify
1958 - Did not enter
1962 - Did not qualify
1966 - Did not enter
1970 to 1994 - Did not qualify
1998 - Round 1
2002 - Round 2
2006 - Qualified
Current Notable Players:

Alex Junichi Inamoto, Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Hidetoshi Nakata, Shunsuke Nakamura, Shinji Ono, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (current captain), Robert Cullen, Wagner Lopes, Mike Havenaar

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