16. Japonia (Grupa E)

COMPONENŢA:

Portari:
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Jubilo Iwata) – 15.08.1976 (116)
Eiji Kawashima (Kawasaki Frontale) – 20.03.1983 (9)
Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus) – 15.04.1976 (76)

Fundaşi:
Daiki Iwamasa (Kashima Antlers) – 30.01.1982 (2/0)
Yuichi Komano (Jubilo Iwata) – 25.07.1981 (52/0)
Yasuyuki Konno (FC Tokyo) -25.01.1983 (36/0)
Tomoaki Makino (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) – 11.05.1987 (2/0)
Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo) – 12.09.1986 (25/3 goluri)
Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos) – 25.02.1978 (104/17)
Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus) – 24.04.1981 (38/8)
Yuhei Tokunaga (FC Tokyo) – 25.09.1983 (7/0)
Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers) – 27.03.1988 (31/1)

Mijlocaşi:
Yuki Abe (Urawa Red Diamonds) – 6.09.1981 (44/3)
Jasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) – 28.01.1980 (93/8)
Makoto Hasebe (Wolfsburg, Germania) – 18.01.1984 (30/1)
Keisuke Honda (ŢSKA Moscova, Rusia) – 13.06.1986 (14/4)
Junichi Inamoto (Kawasaki Frontale) – 18.09.1979 (79/5)
Naohiro Ishikawa (FC Tokyo) – 12.05.1981 (5/0)
Shinji Kagawa (Borussia Dortmund) – 17.03.1989 (13/2)
Daisuke Matsui (Grenoble Foot-38, Franţa) – 11.03.1981 (23/1)
Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale) – 31.10.1980 (46/5)
Shunsuke Nakamura (Yokohama F. Marinos) – 24.06.1978 (96/24)
Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) – 5.04.1979 (55/7)

Atacanţi:
Ryoichi Maeda (Jubilo Iwata) – 9.10.1981 (5/2)
Takayuki Morimoto (Catania, Italia) – 7.05.1988 (5/1)
Shinji Okazaki (Shimizu S-Pulse) – 16.04.1986 (27/16)
Yoshito Okubo (Vissel Kobe) – 9.06.1982 (48/5)
Keiji Tamada (Nagoya Grampus) – 11.04.1980 (69/16)
Tatsuya Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) – 27.11.1982 (16/3)
Kisho Yano (Albirex Niigata) – 5.04.1984 (18/2)

Antrenor: Takeshi Okada (Japonia, 25.08.1956)

Lider al echipei este considerat Shunsuke Nakamura (în imagine)

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