Japanese soccer team leaves for World Cup
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-26 15:55 The Japanese soccer team left
for the German World Cup finals Friday afternoon, two days after closing a
weeklong training camp in Fukushima Prefecture.
Coach Zico and his 23-man squad will hold final tune-ups in Bonn and play
friendly matches against hosts Germany and Malta before facing Australia in
Kaiserslautern on June 12 in their opener of first-round Group F.
Japan, making their third consecutive World Cup appearance, will move to
Nuremburg for a match against Croatia on June 18 and take on five-time world
champions Brazil in their final first-round match in Dortmund four days later.
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