1997 Japan national football team

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This page records the details of the Japan national football team in 1997.

Results

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|date=February 9

|team1=Japan

|score=1–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970209/ JFA]

|team2=Thailand

|goals1=Jo {{goal|64|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Bangkok, Thailand

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=D

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=February 13

|team1=Japan

|score=0–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970213/ JFA]

|team2=Sweden

|goals1=

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Bangkok, Thailand

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=L

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=March 15

|team1=Japan

|score=1–3

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970315/ JFA]

|team2=Thailand

|goals1=Miura {{goal|29|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Bangkok, Thailand

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=L

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=March 23

|team1=Japan

|score=1–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970323/ JFA]

|team2=Oman

|goals1=Omura {{goal|10|}}

|goals2=

|location=Muscat, Oman

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=March 25

|team1=Japan

|score=10–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970325/ JFA]

|team2=Macau

|goals1=Takagi {{goal|13||33||71|}}
Soma {{goal|44|}}
Miura {{goal|53||89|}}
Nanami {{goal|67|}}
Morishima {{goal|78||81||89|}}

|goals2=

|location=Muscat, Oman

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=March 27

|team1=Japan

|score=6–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970327/ JFA]

|team2=Nepal

|goals1=Jo {{goal|23|}}
Takagi {{goal|46||54||89|}}
Omura {{goal|76|}}
Honda {{goal|79|}}

|goals2=

|location=Muscat, Oman

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=May 21

|team1=Japan

|score=1–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970521/ JFA]

|team2=South Korea

|goals1=Miura {{goal|88|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=

|result=D

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=June 8

|team1=Japan

|score=4–3

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970608/ JFA]

|team2=Croatia

|goals1=Hirano {{goal|34|}}
Miura {{goal|49||53|}}
Morishima {{goal|89|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=June 15

|team1=Japan

|score=1–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970615/ JFA]

|team2=Turkey

|goals1=Morishima {{goal|25|}}

|goals2=

|location=Osaka, Japan

|stadium=Osaka Nagai Stadium

|attendance=

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=June 22

|team1=Japan

|score=10–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970622/ JFA]

|team2=Macau

|goals1=Nakata {{goal|17||61|}}
Nishizawa {{goal|20|}}
Miura {{goal|23||29||44||57||62||79|}}
Nanami {{goal|42|}}

|goals2=

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=June 25

|team1=Japan

|score=3–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970625/ JFA]

|team2=Nepal

|goals1=Nishizawa {{goal|44|}}
Miura {{goal|72||87|}}

|goals2=

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=June 28

|team1=Japan

|score=1–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970628/ JFA]

|team2=Oman

|goals1=Nakata {{goal|4|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=

|result=D

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=August 13

|team1=Japan

|score=0–3

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970813/ JFA]

|team2=Brazil

|goals1=

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Osaka, Japan

|stadium=Osaka Nagai Stadium

|attendance=45,754

|result=L

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=September 7

|team1=Japan

|score=6–3

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970907/ JFA]

|team2=Uzbekistan

|goals1=Miura {{goal|4||23||64||80|}}
Nakata {{goal|40|}}
Jo {{goal|44|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=54,328

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=September 19

|team1=Japan

|score=0–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970919/ JFA]

|team2=United Arab Emirates

|goals1=

|goals2=

|location=Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=D

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=September 28

|team1=Japan

|score=1–2

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19970928/ JFA]

|team2=South Korea

|goals1=Yamaguchi {{goal|67|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=56,704

|result=L

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=October 4

|team1=Japan

|score=1–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19971004/ JFA]

|team2=Kazakhstan

|goals1=Akita {{goal|23|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Almaty, Kazakhstan

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=D

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=October 11

|team1=Japan

|score=1–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19971011/ JFA]

|team2=Uzbekistan

|goals1=Lopes {{goal|90|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tashkent, Uzbekistan

|stadium=

|attendance=

|result=D

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=October 26

|team1=Japan

|score=1–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19971026/ JFA]

|team2=United Arab Emirates

|goals1=Lopes {{goal|3|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=56,089

|result=D

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=November 1

|team1=Japan

|score=2–0

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19971101/ JFA]

|team2=South Korea

|goals1=Nanami {{goal|1|}}
Lopes {{goal|37|}}

|goals2=

|location=Seoul, South Korea

|stadium=

|attendance=80,000

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=November 8

|team1=Japan

|score=5–1

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19971108/ JFA]

|team2=Kazakhstan

|goals1=Akita {{goal|12|}}
Nakata {{goal|16|}}
Nakayama {{goal|44|}}
Ihara {{goal|67|}}
Takagi {{goal|79|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Tokyo, Japan

|stadium=Tokyo National Stadium

|attendance=56,032

|result=W

}}

{{footballbox collapsible

|date=November 16

|team1=Japan

|score=3–2 (aet, GG)

|report=[http://samuraiblue.jp/timeline/19971116/ JFA]

|team2=Iran

|goals1=Nakayama {{goal|39|}}
Jo {{goal|76|}}
Okano {{golden goal|118|}}

|goals2=? {{goal|?|}}
? {{goal|?|}}

|location=Johor Bahru, Malaysia

|stadium=

|attendance=22,000

|result=W

}}

Players statistics

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"

|Player|

199602.0902.1303.1503.2303.2503.2705.2106.0806.1506.2206.2506.2808.1309.0709.1909.2810.0410.1110.2611.0111.0811.161997Total
Masami Ihara88(4)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|
|OO(1)O21(1)109(5)
Kazuyoshi Miura64(35)O|
|O(1)OO(2)|
|O(1)O(2)OO(6)O(2)OOO(4)OOOOOO|
|O19(18)83(53)
Tsuyoshi Kitazawa43(3)OOO|
|OO|
|O|
|O|
|OOOO11(0)54(3)
Takuya Takagi39(20)|
|O|
|O(3)O(3)|
|O|
|O(1)|
|5(7)44(27)
Motohiro Yamaguchi27(3)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO(1)OOOOOO22(1)49(4)
Hiroshige Yanagimoto25(0)|
|OOOOO|
|5(0)30(0)
Hisashi Kurosaki23(4)|
|O|
|1(0)24(4)
Naoki Soma22(2)O|
|OOO(1)OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO21(1)43(3)
Hiroaki Morishima20(2)OOOOO(3)OOO(1)O(1)OO|
|O|
|O|
|O|
|14(5)34(7)
Masashi Nakayama19(8)|
|O(1)O(1)2(2)21(10)
Masakiyo Maezono17(4)O|
|O|
|2(0)19(4)
Norio Omura16(2)O|
|OO(1)OO(1)O|
|OOOO|
|10(2)26(4)
Hiroshi Nanami15(3)OOOOO(1)OOOOO(1)OO|
|OOOOOOO(1)OO21(3)36(6)
Yasuto Honda15(0)|
|O|
|OOO(1)OO|
|OO|
|OOOOO|
|O|
|14(1)29(1)
Masayuki Okano14(1)|
|O|
|OO|
|O|
|O(1)5(1)19(2)
Akira Narahashi10(0)|
|OOO|
|OOOOOOOOOO13(0)23(0)
Kenichi Shimokawa8(0)O|
|1(0)9(0)
Tadashi Nakamura7(0)O|
|O|
|OOOOO|
|O|
|8(0)15(0)
Yutaka Akita4(1)|
|O|
|OOOOOOOOOO(1)OOOO(1)O16(2)20(3)
Shoji Jo4(0)O(1)OOO|
|O(1)O|
|OO(1)O|
|OO|
|OO(1)13(4)17(4)
Toshihide Saito2(0)|
|OOO|
|OO|
|OO|
|7(0)9(0)
Ryuji Michiki1(0)|
|O|
|O|
|O|
|3(0)4(0)
Toshihiro Hattori1(0)|
|O|
|1(0)2(0)
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi0(0)|
|OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO21(0)21(0)
Hidetoshi Nakata0(0)|
|OOOO(2)OO(1)OO(1)OOOOOOO(1)O16(5)16(5)
Wagner Lopes0(0)|
|OOO(1)O(1)O(1)|
|O6(3)6(3)
Akinori Nishizawa0(0)|
|O|
|O(1)O(1)|
|O|
|O|
|5(2)5(2)
Takashi Hirano0(0)|
|O(1)|
|O|
|OO|
|O|
|5(1)5(1)
Eisuke Nakanishi0(0)|
|OOO|
|O|
|O|
|5(0)5(0)
Shigeyoshi Mochizuki0(0)|
|O|
|O|
|2(0)2(0)
Teruyoshi Ito0(0)|
|O|
|1(0)1(0)
Yasuyuki Moriyama0(0)|
|O|
|1(0)1(0)
Hideto Suzuki0(0)|
|O|
|1(0)1(0)
Takeshi Watanabe0(0)|
|O|
|1(0)1(0)