Tomoya Ando

And seven other players who didn't go to the World Cup were called up.

They are goalkeeper Leo Kokubo, defender Tomoya Ando, midfielders Satoshi Tanaka, Kodai Sano, and Koki Kumasaka, and attackers Yuki Soma and Ryunosuke Sato.

So, yeah, we thought he would go a little bit extended here, johnny and um yeah a lot of interesting names there both amongst the first timers and also those who have been recalled

yeah yes what's interesting for me as well is like how young the squad is you've got daichi kamada's i think 30 years old the only player older than him is junior ito at 33 so you know you've got nagatomo's not there anymore taniguchi wasn't selected endo's obviously retired so and there's obviously a core of like 28 29 27 year olds but I think this is the core of the squad that one would hope goes to the 2030 World Cup.