TOKYO – Japan departed for their pre-World Cup camp in Mexico on Tuesday, with Daichi Kamada joining his teammates to complete Hajime Moriyasu’s 26-man squad.<\/p>\n
The Samurai Blue will train in Monterrey to acclimate to the heat before moving to their base camp in Nashville, Tennessee, days before the start of the tournament co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States.<\/p>\n
“We will do our best so that the people of Japan can celebrate seeing us win the World Cup,” Moriyasu said at a departure ceremony at Narita airport near Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Japan begin their campaign against the Netherlands in Group F on June 14 at Dallas Stadium before playing Tunisia on June 20 in Monterrey.<\/p>\n
They will return to Dallas Stadium for their third game against Sweden on June 25.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Kamada did not take part in Japan’s World Cup send-off match on Sunday in Tokyo, a 1-0 win for the hosts over Iceland, after he helped Crystal Palace clinch the Conference League title on Wednesday with a 1-0 win over Rayo Vallecano in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO – Japan departed for their pre-World Cup camp in Mexico on Tuesday, with Daichi Kamada joining his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-710634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}