Introduction
Two of the most famous football teams in the whole world are the USA national football team and the Japan national football team. The two sides have accumulated a long streak of games within regular seasons and playoffs. This paper aims at exploring the following questions concerning the USA and Japanese national football teams: what main factors define and explain their successes and failures?
USA National Football Team
US national football team also popularly called as the US men soccer team is a national football team of United States of America. The team is associated with United States Soccer Federation (USSF). The USA became the member of FIFA since 1929 and has the participation in FIFA World Cup eleven times. The team has only once reached the third place in the qualification rounds of the world cup tournament this was during the 1930 football world cup tournament.
Japan National Football Team
The football team of Japan is the Japan national football team also known as the Samurai Blue. The team is part of Japanese Football Association also referred to as JFA. Japan joined FIFA in 1954 and it has participated in the FIFA World Cup seven occasions. Their best campaign in FIFA World Cup was at the 2022 edition the team got to the round of 16.
Head-to-Head Record
The last meetings between the USA and Japan have been 23 which the USA has won 11 and the Japan has won 9 with 3 games drawn. The highest score of victory the USA has scored over Japan was in the year 1993 with a 4-1 score while the highest victory for Japan over the USA was in the year 2005 with a 2-0 score.
Recent Results
Over the previous 5 years, both The USA and Japan have competed in four tournaments and The USA played and won 2 match, however Japan also played and won 2 matches.The last match involving two teams and sides was played in the year 2021 where USA side trounced the side of Canada 2-0.
Key Players
Many players from both USA and Japan have proved to be so talented in basketball and have over the years helped their respective teams. Some of the key players for the USA national football team include:
- Christian Pulisic (Chelsea)
- Weston McKennie (Juventus)
- Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund)
- Tyler Adams (Leeds United)
- Sergino Dest (Barcelona)
Some of the key players for the Japan national football team include:
- Takumi Minamino (Monaco)
- Takefusa Kubo (Real Sociedad)
- Junya Ito (Stade Reims)
- Kaoru Mitoma from Brighton & Hove Albion
- Yuta Nakamura of Yokohama F. Marinos
Future Outlook
The American and Japanese national football teams have a long future and great potential. The USA has a good youth policy and remains hopeful of being a contender for the soccer world cup in the near future. Japan is also improving and, thus has a good chance to qualify of the further FIFA World Cups.
FAQs
Q: Can you tell me the entire history of the U.S and the Japanese football team were-cross match record?
A: For the year, the team of the USA has won eleven games, lost nine and drawn in three of the matches against Japan.
Q: The last time the USA and Japan played was?
A: The USA and Japan have recorded their last match in 2021, which the USA emerged winner with a 2-0 goal.
Conclusion
The USA and Japan national football teams are two of the most popular football teams of the world. Each team has traditions and experienced many games between them during past seasons. The USA has been far superior to Japan in the recent years as a team. But Japan sees improvement and can reduce the gap soon. One will like to wait and watch how the contest bet the two teams improves in the years to come.
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