It was announced today that Reo Hatate, Kyogo Furuhashi, and Daizen Maeda were called up for Japanese national team.
At 2pm on 25 May, JFA (Japan Football Association) announced the squad for the Kirin Challenge Cup to be held in June. They will play against El Salvador on 15 June and Peru on 20 June and his time three Celtic players, Kyogo Furuhashi, Reo Hatate, and Daizen Maeda were called up to Japanese national team.
The manager Moriyasu said the following about Kyogo Furuhashi, which he has been called up for the first time since last September.
“I evaluate that he continued to contribute to Celtic’s winning this season. And I know that he had results at Celtic, so I expect him to score goals in the Japanese national team. I want him to be involved not only in the role of scoring goals, but also in the part of creating opportunities for the team to score goals.”
In addition, Moriyasu said about Reo Hatate as follows.
“This time, I have called up great performance this season. When I build base of Japanese national team, I would like to see fusion between Reo and other players, how he has evolved at Celtic, and his tactical understanding.”
The activities of Japanese national team are scheduled to start on 12 June, Celtic Japanese players will join the team about a week after the Scottish Cup Final against Inverness Caley Thistle. I hope they will have enough rest, and at the same time, I really hope they will spend quality time as Japanese national players.
Finally, the squad is as follows…
▽GK
🇧🇪Daniel Schmidt(STVV)
🇵🇹Kosuke Nakamura(Portimonense)
🇯🇵Keisuke Osako(Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
▽DF
🇶🇦Shogo Taniguchi(Al-Rayyan)
🇩🇪Ko Itakura(Borussia MG)
🇯🇵Ryoya Morishita(Nagoya Grampus)
🇩🇪Hiroki Ito(Stuttgart)
🇨🇭Ayumu Seko(Grasshopper)
🇳🇱Yukinari Sugawara(AZ)
▽MF/FW
🇩🇪Wataru Endo(Stuttgart)
🇫🇷Junya Ito(Stade de Reims)
🇩🇪Takuma Asano(Bochum)
🏴Kyogo Furuhashi(Celtic)
🇵🇹Hidemasa Morita(SportingCP)
🇨🇭Hayao Kawabe(Grasshopper)
🇩🇪Daichi Kamada(Frankfurt)
🇵🇹Yuki Soma(Casa Pia)
🏴Kaoru Mitoma(Brighton)
🏴Daizen Maeda(Celtic)
🏴Reo Hatate(Celtic)
🇩🇪Ritsu Doan(Freiburg)
🇧🇪Ayase Ueda(Cercle Brugge)
🇯🇵Takumu Kawamura(Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
🇦🇹Keito Nakamura(LASK)
🇪🇸Takefusa Kubo(Real Sociedad)
🇯🇵Sota Kawasaki(Kyoto Sanga)
Yatao
I am a Content Creator and Origami art Creator, Analyst working for think tank in Japan and I joined this team in May 2023 and started to write articles as Japanese Celtic author for The Celtic Star. I live in Kobe(Japan) and have followed Celtic after 14 October, 2006, when I had watched the game against Dundee United FC – Shunsuke Nakamura scored a hat-trick. Also I am an enthusiastic supporter of Vissel Kobe, and I am familiar with various information and history of J-League. I have been posting threads on trajectory and background of Celtic Japanese players on Twitter mainly since summer of 2022 in order to further deepen the bond between Celtic and Japan. This time, I’m so proud to be more committed to Celtic by joining The Celtic Star team. I’m good at changing of viewpoints, so please expect my articles written from fresh perspective.
