Zaccheroni Announces Japan's 23 Man World Cup Squad

Japanese national football manager Alberto Zaccheroni has today announced his 23 man squad for next month's World Cup campaign in Brazil.


The squad has got many reliable regular's in the form of midfielders Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa who have been fixtures of the side for a long while now.

There is a couple of surprises aswell which include the ins of Kawasaki Frontale forward Yoshito Okubo and Sanfrecce Hiroshima midfielder Toshihiro Aoyama who both come in at the expense of Vitesse striker Mike Havenaar and also Hertha Berlin regular Hajime Hosagai.

This is the complete list:

Goalkeepers
Eiji Kawashima (Standard Liege), Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Reds), Shuichi Gonda (FC Tokyo)

Defenders 
Masahiko Inoha (Jubilo Iwata), Yasuyuki Konno (Gamba Osaka), Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan), Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo), Atsuto Uchida (Schalke), Hiroki Sakai (Hannover), Gotoku Sakai (Stuttgart), Maya Yoshida (Southampton)

Midfielders 
Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka), Makoto Hasebe (Nurnberg), Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka), Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Keisuke Honda (AC Milan), Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United,), Hiroshi Kiyotake (Nurnberg), Manabu Saito (Yokohama F.Marinos)

Forwards
Yuya Osako (1860 Munich), Yoichiro Kakitani (Cerezo Osaka), Yoshito Okubo (Kawasaki Frontale), Shinji Okazaki (Mainz)