Soccer World Cup 2006 / Japan

This article covers the Japanese national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Japan	16: 1	18th
2	Oman	14: 3	10
3	India	2:18	4th
4th	Singapore	3:13	3

Second round - group 3

	Japan - Oman		1: 0 (0: 0)
	Tatsuhiko Kubo (90th + 3)
	Singapore - Japan		1: 2 (0: 1)
	0: 1 Takahara, 1: 1 Indra Sahdan Daud (62nd), 1: 2 Fujita (84th)
	Japan - India		7: 0 (3: 0)
	1-0 Kubo (13th), 2-0 Fukunishi (25th), 3-0 Nakamura (29th), 4-0 Suzuki (54th), 5-0 Nakazawa (66th), 6-0 Ogasawara ( 68th), 7-0 Nakazawa (78th)
	India - Japan		0: 4 (0: 1)
	0: 1 Suzuki (45th), 0: 2 Ono (60th), 0: 3 Fukunishi (69th), 0: 4 Miyamoto (89th)
	Oman - Japan		0: 1 (0: 0)
	0: 1 Suzuki (54th)
	Japan - Singapore		1: 0 (0: 0)
	Tamada (13.)

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Japan	9: 4	15th
2	Iran	7: 3	13
3	Bahrain	4: 7	4th
4th	North Korea	5:11	3

Final round - Group B

	Japan - North Korea		2: 1 (1: 0)
	1: 0 Ogasawara (5th), 1: 1 Nam (61st), 2: 1 Oguro (90th + 2)
	Iran - Japan		2: 1 (1: 0)
	1: 0 Hashemian (25th), 1: 1 Fukunishi (66th), 2: 1 Hashemian (75th)
	Japan - Bahrain		1: 0 (0: 0)
	1: 0 Ahmed (72./ET)
	Bahrain - Japan		0: 1 (0: 1)
	0: 1 Ogasawara (32nd)
	North Korea - Japan		0: 2 (0: 0)
	0: 1 Yanagisawa (67th), 0: 2 Oguro (89th)
	Japan - Iran		2: 1 (1: 0)
	1-0 Akira Kaji (29th), 2-0 Masashi Oguro (76th), 2-1 Daei (79th)

Japanese contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Seigō Narazaki	Nagoya Grampus Eight	04/15/1976	0	0	0	0	0
12	Yōichi Doi	FC Tokyo	07/25/1973	0	0	0	0	0
23	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Júbilo Iwata	08/15/1975	3	0	1	0	0
Defender
2	Teruyuki Moniwa	FC Tokyo	09/08/1981	1	0	1	0	0
3	Yūichi Komano	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	07/25/1981	1	0	0	0	0
5	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto	Gamba Osaka	02/07/1977	2	0	2	0	0
6th	Kōji Nakata	FC Basel	07/09/1979	1	0	0	0	0
14th	Alex	Urawa Red Diamonds	07/20/1977	3	0	1	0	0
19th	Keisuke Tsuboi	Urawa Red Diamonds	09/16/1979	2	0	0	0	0
21st	Akira Kaji	Gamba Osaka	01/13/1980	2	0	1	0	0
22nd	Yūji Nakazawa	Yokohama F. Marinos	02/25/1978	3	0	0	0	0
midfield player
4th	Yasuhito Endo	Gamba Osaka	January 28, 1980	0	0	0	0	0
7th	Hidetoshi Nakata	Bolton Wanderers	01/22/1977	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Mitsuo Ogasawara	Kashima Antlers	04/05/1979	2	0	0	0	0
10	Shunsuke Nakamura	Celtic Glasgow	06/24/1978	3	1	0	0	0
15th	Takashi Fukunishi	Júbilo Iwata	09/01/1976	2	0	0	0	0
17th	Junichi Inamoto	West Bromwich Albion	09/18/1979	2	0	0	0	0
18th	Shinji Ono	Urawa Red Diamonds	09/27/1979	1	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Naohiro Takahara	Hamburger SV	06/04/1979	3	0	1	0	0
11	Seiichirō Maki	JEF Chiba	08/08/1980	1	0	0	0	0
13	Atsushi Yanagisawa	Kashima Antlers	05/27/1977	2	0	0	0	0
16	Masashi Ōguro	Grenoble Foot	05/04/1980	3	0	0	0	0
20th	Keiji Tamada	Nagoya Grampus Eight	04/11/1980	2	1	0	0	0
Trainer
	Zico		03/03/1953

Games of Japan

Crew quarters

Hotel Hilton in Bonn . The training ground was the Sportpark Nord in Bonn.

Preliminary round - Group F

• Australia - Japan 3: 1 (0: 1)

• Japan 0-0 Croatia

• Japan - Brazil 1: 4 (1: 1)

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Group F