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Junji Ogura, head of the Japanese sports organization, reported on the decision to Nicolas Leoz, president of CONMEBOL (Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol), during their meeting at the headquarters of the South American sports organization in Luque , a town adjacent to Assumption .

The step ahead of the Japanese team, as has been reflected in South Africa 2010, and has had little activity in Okada plans in recent times have been the main trigger for the big football star in Japanese last decade, Shunsuke Nakamura, announced his retirement from international football.

One of the great surprises of the 2010 World Cup are coming from Japan, where the section that runs Okada, has managed to add two wins and only fell by a goal against the Netherlands and after a monumental failure of their goalkeeper. Now, once you have managed to make history, combined Japanese want more and so illustrates one of his sons, the central Brazilian-born Marcus Tulio Tanaka.

Japan has only once in its history beyond the first phase of the World Cup and did when he was host in 2002. He is now one step of repeating that feat and to do so will simply draw against Denmark in a crash in which his coach, Takeshi Okada, wants to put the most attention and has ranked as one of the matches of his life.

Not every four years is achieved easily and it takes a high level to achieve, so that no one wants to miss Japan the option. Japan can get the selection in the second round of South Africa 2010 and the challenge, still possible before the game against Denmark on Thursday, is the great goal of the players from Takeshi Okada. The coach has accepted these days that is key to reach this stage and the players specially motivated to be achieved.

Spectacular has released statements that Eiji Kawashima, Japan's goalkeeper when asked what the hell happened to him on the key play, which decided the game against Holland. The launch of Wesley Sneijder came strong, true, but the goal was hands the wrong way and he slipped the ball. Of course he has an explanation. Was:

Both came calmly selected after winning their first World Cup matches, which gave them victory bye to the second round. Interestingly, despite repeating the same onces that on that first day, neither technical aligned as a fixed point in Holland is still Van Persie as a reference while in Japan, Honda is llegador as more advanced players ahead of the striker local, Okazaki, without confidence to Okada. The absence was again great, of course, Arjen Robben, who is already expected for the third time that will snap to this group.

In a press conference before the game against Cameroon on Monday, the coach of Japan , Takeshi Okada, admitted they will have a tough challenge ahead trying to stop the Indomitable Lions of Samuel Eto'o.

Speaking just the tip of Inter Milan's former Barcelona, Real Madrid and Mallorca in Spain, Okada said: "Nobody can stop you scored in a one against one."

The pre-World Cup injuries are not forgetting any selection and one of the last to fall was Japan. And is that after Friday's friendly against Ivory Coast (where Drogba was injured), also was 'touched' Yasuyuki Konno, who is going to miss the first World Cup match against Cameroon by knee problems.

Hidetoshi Nakata was the second youngest player in Japan in the 2002 World Cup when he was just 21 years old, though he had helped his team qualify for the World Cup in France in 98. Now, it's one of the best players in the history of Japanese football.

He was known for his ability to make great passes from midfield. His assists were so famous that they became known as Murderers Pass. At the time, moreover, its contribution to the Japanese team was maximum, to the extent that the country Japan probably would not have been able to qualify for the World Cup but was not for your help.