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March 21 – With targets from Daichi Kamada and Takefusa Kubo in a 2-0 victory towards Bahrain, Japan grew to become the primary nation to qualify for the enlarged 48-team 2026 World Cup within the USA, Mexico and Canada.
Within the second half, substitute Kamada opened the rating earlier than Kubo added the second three minutes from time to earn Japan three extra factors within the qualifiers and a ticket to the worldwide finals subsequent 12 months.
Japan lead Group C by 9 factors forward of Australia, who defeated Indonesia 5-1. The primary two in every of Asia’s three qualifying teams will clinch qualification for the World Cup with the third- and fourth-placed groups advancing to the play-offs.
The Blue Samurai’s qualification is a mirrored image of their spectacular marketing campaign. Within the second spherical of qualifiers, they loved an ideal file with six wins from six, 24 targets scored and none conceded towards North Korea, Syria and Myanmar.
Within the present third of qualifying, the Japanese have received all their matches, apart from a 1-1 draw towards Australia. They defeated China 7-0 and obtained a formidable 2-0 away victory in Saudi Arabia. Of their remaining matches, they’ll face the Inexperienced Falcons and Indonesia at house, and Australia away.
It’s the eighth consecutive time that the Japanese will take part within the World Cup since their debut at France 98 after they misplaced all their three group video games towards Argentina, Croatia and Jamaica. Japan have reached the spherical of 16 on 4 events, together with on the final two finals.
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