Who scored Japan s first goal at the World Cup?

Masashi Nakayama scored Japan's only goal in a 1-2 defeat to Jamaica at the 1998 World Cup and Japan's first World Cup finals.

English name: Masashi Nakayama

Gender: Male Nationality: Japan.

City of birth: Okabe Town, Shita-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture.

Date of birth: 23 September 1967.

Height: 178cm

Weight: 72kg

Position: Striker.

Specific information.

In the 1998 World Cup, Japan scored Japan's only goal in that tournament in a 1-2 defeat to Jamaica and Japan's first goal in a World Cup finals.

Japan has previously competed in six World Cup finals: 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018.

They have reached the knockout rounds three times, in 2002, 2010 and 2018, and the final results in the round of 16 in all three editions.

Detailed results of the Japanese team in the World Cup:

1998 (Group Out): Japan 0-1 Argentina Japan 0-1 Croatia Japan 1-2 Jamaica.

2002 (Round of 16): Japan 2-2 Belgium, Japan 1-0 Russia, Japan 2-0 Tunisia, Japan 0-1 Turkey.

2006 (group out): Japan 1-3 Australia Japan 0-0 Croatia Japan 1-4 Brazil.

2010 (Round of 16): Japan 1-0 Cameroon Japan 0-1 Netherlands Japan 3-1 Denmark Japan 3-5 Paraguay (penalty).

2014 (Group Out): Japan 1-2 Ivory Coast Japan 0-0 Greece Japan 1-4 Colombia.

2018 (Round of 16): Japan 2-1 Colombia Japan 2-2 Senegal Japan 0-1 Poland Japan 2-3 Belgium.

2022 (Eliminated Round): Japan 2-1 Germany Japan 0-1 Costa Rica Japan 2-1 Spain.

Japan scored four goals in the 2022 World Cup.

Japanese football has also been difficult to qualify for a long time, and in Asia, when there were only 16 or 24 places in the World Cup, Asia was often allocated 2 or 3 places, which was pitiful. It is often South Korea and Saudi Arabia that qualify. In 1993, the Chinese team defeated Irbid and missed the 1994 World Cup in the United States.

Similarly, the Japanese team also lost to Doha and was equalized by the Iraqi team at the last moment, and also failed to qualify. Subsequently, Chinese and Japanese football began to be professionalized at the same time.

Japanese football is very serious, down-to-earth, and every step is taken! As a result, in 1998, the team of Nichiyama Shuye successfully qualified. In that tournament, Japan lost 0-1 to Argentina and 0-1 to Croatia!

Lost 1-2 to Jamaica. Being able to score just one goal by Batistuta and lose to the third-place Plaid Army, and also scored, the Japanese team shocked the world for the first time!

In the 2018 World Cup, the Japanese team became much more low-key, and the team showed strong firepower again. Revenge 2-1 win over Colombia, 2-2 draw with Senegal and 1-0 defeat to Poland – the last 10 minutes of the game were a bit undeserved.

In the 2022 World Cup, Japan defeated Germany 2-1 in the first group game. So far, the Japanese team has participated in seven consecutive World Cups, and has reached the round of 16 three times (most likely the fourth time this time), scoring 22 goals. Later, the Japanese team will face the following:

Costa Rica, Spain.

Personally, I think the team that surprised the performance in the World Cup, in addition to the French team, may be our neighbor Japan.

First of all, the results of the French team are undoubtedly able to reach the finals, which must prove their quality, and at the same time, France also has many young players, such as Mbappe, Benzema, Dembele.

Such a player is still in the year of playing, it should be said that in the next three or five years, France should still have a relatively complete lineup, and there is no problem of replacing the old and the new, as long as the head coach can continue to serve, I believe that the strength of the French team should be no problem.

And the team that really surprised the performance should be the Japanese team. First of all, the Japanese team's style of play is like the previous Spain, but its speed is more focused on teamwork than Spain. Their results in this cup competition are also obvious to all, and being able to beat the German team at least shows that their confidence in the world's best team is strong enough.

At the same time, it should be said that the entire youth training system of Japanese football, including the cultivation of ball digging brigade judgment benches, should be done well, there is a complete entire youth training system, there can be a steady stream of outstanding talents pouring into the national team, and at the same time, the technical and tactical level of their coaches should always be able to see what he is recording with a small notebook. It should be said that their coach's transformation of the team should be almost successful, and I look forward to the Japanese team having a better bloom and achieving better results in the future.

So I personally feel that the team that surprised me at the TV Qatar World Cup, in addition to France, is Japan, and now I feel that the one that can represent Asia may be Japan's, and the overall technical and tactical level is still very good.

Japan scored four goals in the World Cup, two for Ritsu Doan, one for Bi Tanaka and one for Takuma Asano.

At 9 p.m. on November 23, Beijing time, this Qatar World Cup ushered in the first round of Group E between the Japanese men's football team and the German team.

In the 32nd minute of the game, Germany were awarded a penalty kick. Gundogan took the penalty and scored a goal. The Germans were 1-0 up until the 74th minute.

It wasn't until the 74th minute that Ritsu Doyasu, a substitute for the Japanese men's football team, helped Japan score the equalizing goal. And in less than seven minutes, Japan's Takuma Asano scored again. In the end, Japan defeated Germany 2-1 to get the World Cup off to a flying start and earn three valuable points.

World Cup Introduction:

The FIFA World Cup, referred to as the "World Cup", is a football event that symbolizes the highest honor in football and has the greatest popularity and influence by national teams from all over the world. The World Cup has been televised to more than 3.5 billion viewers worldwide. The World Cup is held every four years, and any FIFA member state (region) can send a team to register for this event.

The Brazilian national team is the team that has won the World Cup the most and has permanently retained the previous World Cup winners' trophy, the Remet Cup, after three World Cup wins. The birthplace of modern football is England, whose team won the World Cup for the first time in 1966. The current World Cup trophy is the Hercules Cup, which was won by Germany, which won the World Cup four times in 1974 for the first time and has been used ever since.

In the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, the Chinese national team advanced to the World Cup finals for the first time.

The Japanese national team has reached the final stage of the World Cup.

The Japanese national team has reached the final stage of the World Cup, which has been held 21 times so far, and the Japanese national team has reached the final stage of the World Cup 6 times.

This year will be their seventh time in the World Cup finals, and most notably, this is the seventh consecutive time they have reached the World Cup finals.

In 1998, it was the first time that the Japanese national team participated in the finals of the World Cup, and at that time, the level and overall strength of Asian football were relatively backward.

In 1998, the Japanese national team entered the play-off stage in the World Cup qualifiers in the Asian region, and finally defeated the Iranian national team with a record of 3:2 and successfully entered the World Cup finals.

At present, the best result of the Japanese national team in the World Cup is the round of 16, and it has won the round of 16 three times, and has not broken this record so far.

Japan won the World Cup.

According to the Japanese media "Mainichi Shimbun", this game is the seventh victory won by the Japanese team since participating in the World Cup. Since their debut in the 1998 World Cup in France, the Blue Samurai have played in seven consecutive World Cups, winning 7 games, drawing 5 and losing 12 in 24 matches (penalty shootouts count as draws).

It surpassed South Korea to become the team with the most World Cup wins by any Asian team. South Korea, who have played in the World Cup for the first time since 1954, have won six games so far and will face Portugal tonight, with six wins, 10 draws and 20 defeats in their three games so far.

Team Japan:

In the other quarter-final, Japan drew 1-1 with Croatia, the runner-up of the last World Cup, in regular time, and finally lost in a penalty shootout and missed the top 8! Japan still have a good chance of victory, and they were the first to break the deadlock and take the lead against Croatia.

Then he played back and forth with the Croatian team, but he lost due to lack of experience and his psychological quality was not stable enough in the penalty shootout! With the Japanese team and the South Korean team out, all 6 teams of the AFC in this World Cup were wiped out, but the AFC still won, and this World Cup is the best result in the history of the AFC team, which proves the progress of Asian football!