The team that represents Japan in the preliminary rounds of the Madrid Olympics.
Results
Practice matches
- ○ U-22 Japan 4 - 2 U-22 Denmark ●
- Δ U-22 Japan 2 - 2 U-22 Nigeria Δ
- ○ U-22 Japan 3 - 0 U-22 Paraguay ●
Asian Olympics preliminaries
2nd round
These matches are home-and-away
- ○ U-22 Japan 6 - 0 U-22 Malaysia ●
- ● U-22 Thailand 0 - 2 U-22 Japan ○
- ● U-22 Bahrain 0 - 3 U-22 Japan ○
- ● U-22 Malaysia 0 - 5 U-22 Japan ○
- ○ U-22 Japan 3 - 0 U-22 Thailand ●
- ○ U-22 Japan 5 - 0 U-22 Bahrain ●
3rd round
These matches are home-and-away
- Δ U-22 Saudi Arabia 1 - 1 U-22 Japan Δ
- ○ U-22 Japan 4 - 0 U-22 Vietnam ●
- ○ U-22 Australia 3 - 1 U-22 Japan ●
- ○ U-22 Japan 2 - 0 U-22 Saudi Arabia ●
- ● U-22 Vietnam 0 - 4 U-22 Japan ○
- ○ U-22 Japan 4 - 1 U-22 Australia ●
Practice match
- Δ U-22 Japan 2 - 2 Greece Δ
Squad
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- Coach Kozo Kira
- Other players:
- GK ?? Taichi Nakanishi[3]
- GK ?? Michel Yamada[4]
- DF 5 Hiroshi Jito[5]
- DF 22 Yuji Soga[6]
- DF ?? Yuji Sakaki[4]
- MF 10 Tsubasa Ozora[6]
- MF 20 Shingo Aoi[6]
- MF ?? Nobuyuki Yumikura[3]
- MF ?? Takashi Sugimoto[4]
- MF ?? Toshiya Okano[4]
- FW 9 Kojiro Hyuga[6]
Notes
- ↑ Wakabayashi was the U-22 team's captain until he got injured in the match against Australia.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wakashimazu was registered as both goalkeeper and forward in the U-22 team.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nakanishi and Yumikura were selected for the friendly matches, but didn't make it in the final 23.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Those players joined the training camp, but weren't selected at any points.
- ↑ Jito was injured during the friendly match against Denmark. He later gave Gakuto the number 5 uniform.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Tsubasa, Aoi, Hyuga and Soga returned to join the practice match against Greece's national team.