This weekend, the 2019 UAE Asian Cup is about to officially start. Compared with the Low-key Chinese team, the Japanese team and the South Korean team, which are often compared in the past, have shouted the slogan of "winning the championship".
Among them, the Japanese team, which quickly completed the replacement after the World Cup, is particularly eye-catching, and after a large number of European celebrities such as Makoto Hasebe, Keisuke Honda, shinji Kagawa have bid farewell or lost to the national team, the younger generation of Japanese football will open their own era under the leadership of the new coach Hoichi Mori.
At last year's World Cup in Russia, although it was a little regrettable to be eliminated by Belgium 3:2, the Japanese team finally rewrote the embarrassing history of not scoring goals in the World Cup knockout rounds, and Nishino As the interim manager, he once again proved his extraordinary coaching ability.
Because the identity of Nishino's interim manager has long been determined before the World Cup, the question of whether the next manager is a local manager or a foreign manager has been continuously thrown to takashi Sekizuka, the head of the technical committee of the Japanese Football Association, and Yukizo Tajima, the president of the Japanese Football Association, but the two have always been silent. Finally, a month after the end of the World Cup in Russia, the Japanese Football Association officially confirmed that the current Japanese Olympic team coach Mori Hoichi will also serve as the manager of the Japanese national team.
It was a surprising decision. We are not qualified to evaluate whether Mori Hoichi is qualified to be the manager of the Japanese team, but it should be known that as the manager of the Japanese Olympic team, MoriHoichi has the responsibility of leading the team to complete the Tokyo Olympic Games. All along, the "foot stick dispute" in Japan has reached an unprecedented white-hot, and both sides are striving for the position of the first movement in Japan.
To this end, the Japanese Football Association did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to arrange for the Tokyo Olympic age-appropriate team led by Mori Hoichi to go overseas for training several times a year. What's more, for the new coach, Morihoichi, he has a major responsibility for reforming Japanese football, just as Halihodzic did before class. Putting so much of the burden on Moriho's shoulders alone has worried the Japanese media and fans a lot.
But so far, the Japanese team has not had the collapse that everyone expected, but has played well. After determining the strategic goal of "everything for the Qatar World Cup", MoriBoichi began to carry out a young reform of the national team, including a large number of European celebrities such as Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa, Shinji Okazaki and so on, who were not selected for the World Cup national team again, in stark contrast to a large number of young players who played in the European sub-league such as Shoya Nakajima, Takumi Minamino, Anru Don, and Kenyo Fuan, who quickly grew into the core players of the Japanese team.
On the first international matchday after the World Cup, Japan beat Costa Rica and Panama at home in two 3-0 games, and on the second international matchday, Japan even defeated Uruguay at home 4:3, which was only Suarez. So far, in addition to the unexpected draw with Venezuela, Japan has maintained all the other four warm-up matches and averaged at least 3 goals per game, and the terrifying attack and unparalleled control have made it impossible for the outside world to define them as ordinary Asian teams. In addition to the set-piece defense, the Japanese team has completely become the appearance of the world's strongest team.
Before departing for the UAE, Mori said at the airport: "I tell the players that no matter what the previous results are, it is already in the past, and from now on we will start from scratch and carefully prepare for this competition." The Japanese media also pointed out that if the Japanese team can win the championship this time, Mori Hoichi will become the first person in history to win the Asian Cup as a player and head coach.
According to Mori's tactical habits, the 4-2-3-1 system that has been proven to be very suitable for the current Japanese team in warm-up matches will become his first choice. Behind him, Takumi Minamino, Shoya Nakajima and Yasuru Don are lined up, with Hang Endo and Takeshi Shibasaki in the double-back position, while the four backliners are made up of players from Europe: Yuto Nagatomo, Kenyo Fuan, Maya Yoshida and Hiroki Sakai. The goalkeeper position may be the only variable in the Japanese team, the three selected people have little difference in ability and strength, and their status in training will become an important basis for MoriHoichi to finally make a choice.
Japan squad roster
Goalkeepers: Shunaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka), Shuichi Kwonda (Sandstone Tosu), Daniel Schmitt (Sendai Tanabata);
Defenders: Yuto Nagatomo (Galatasaray), Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Red Diamonds), Maya Yoshida (Southampton), Sho Sasaki (Sanfrecce HIROSHIMA), Hiroki Sakai (Marseille), Muroya Noriki (Tokyo FC), Shinta Miura (Gamba Osaka), Kenhiro Tomiya (Sint-Turden);
Midfielders: Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Genki Haraguchi (Hanover 96), Mt. Shibasaki (Getafe), Ken Endo (St. Turden), Junya Ito (Kashiwa Helios), Shoya Nakajima (Portimão), Takumi Minamino (Red Bull Salzburg), Hidemasa Morita (Kawasaki Striker), Don Anlu (Groningen);
Forwards: Ōkō Shōgun (Werder Bremen), Takuma Asano (Hannover 96), Kōya Kitagawa (Shimizu Heartbeat)