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Squad

Goalkeepers
No.	Name	Position	Height	Weight	Birth Date	Birthplace
12	Masaaki Higashiguchi	Goalkeeper	1.84 m6-0	78 kg172 lbs	5/12/1986	Osaka, Japan
	Ryosuke Kojima	Goalkeeper	1.83 m6-0	73 kg161 lbs	1/30/1997	Aichi, Japan
23	Kosuke Nakamura	Goalkeeper	1.84 m6-0	72 kg159 lbs	2/27/1995	Tokyo, Japan
	Keisuke Osako	Goalkeeper	1.85 m6-1	82 kg181 lbs	7/28/1999	Kagoshima, Japan
1	Daniel Schmidt	Goalkeeper	1.97 m6-6	88 kg194 lbs	2/3/1992	Illinois, Illinois
Defenders
No.	Name	Position	Height	Weight	Birth Date	Birthplace
	Koki Anzai	Defender	1.72 m5-8	64 kg141 lbs	5/31/1995	Hyogo, Japan
	Shinnosuke Hatanaka	Defender	1.84 m6-0	80 kg176 lbs	8/25/1995	Kanagawa, Japan
	Ko Itakura	Defender	1.86 m6-1	75 kg165 lbs	1/27/1997	Kanagawa, Japan
	Tomoki Iwata	Defender	1.78 m5-10	73 kg161 lbs	4/7/1997	Oita, Japan
20	Tomoaki Makino	Defender	1.82 m6-0	77 kg170 lbs	5/11/1987	Hiroshima, Japan
3	Sei Muroya	Defender	1.76 m5-9	69 kg152 lbs	4/5/1994	Osaka, Japan
5	Yuto Nagatomo	Defender	1.70 m5-7	68 kg150 lbs	9/12/1986	Saijo, Japan
	Yuta Nakayama	Defender	1.81 m5-11	76 kg168 lbs	2/16/1997	Saitama, Japan
19	Hiroki Sakai	Defender	1.83 m6-0	70 kg154 lbs	4/12/1990	Kashiwa, Japan
4	Sho Sasaki	Defender	1.76 m5-9	67 kg148 lbs	10/2/1989	Kanagawa, Japan
	Daiki Sugioka	Defender	1.82 m6-0	75 kg165 lbs	9/8/1998	Tokyo, Japan
	Yugo Tatsuta	Defender	1.89 m6-2	75 kg165 lbs	6/21/1998	Shizuoka, Japan
2	Naomichi Ueda	Defender	1.86 m6-1	79 kg174 lbs	10/24/1994	Kumamoto, Japan
22	Maya Yoshida	Defender	1.89 m6-2	78 kg172 lbs	8/24/1988	Nagasaki, Japan
Midfielders
No.	Name	Position	Height	Weight	Birth Date	Birthplace
18	Jun Amano	Midfielder	1.75 m5-9	64 kg141 lbs	7/19/1991	Kanagawa, Japan
8	Genki Haraguchi	Midfielder	1.78 m5-10	68 kg150 lbs	5/9/1991	Kumagaya, Japan
	Teruki Hara	Midfielder	1.80 m5-11	72 kg159 lbs	7/30/1998	Saitama, Japan
17	Makoto Hasebe	Midfielder	1.80 m5-11	72 kg159 lbs	1/18/1984	Fujieda, Japan
15	Kento Hashimoto	Midfielder	1.82 m6-0	74 kg163 lbs	8/16/1993	Tokyo, Japan
4	Keisuke Honda	Midfielder	1.82 m6-0	74 kg163 lbs	6/13/1986	Osaka, Japan
7	Junya Ito	Midfielder	1.76 m5-9	68 kg150 lbs	3/9/1993	kanagawa, Japan
	Daichi Kamada	Midfielder	1.80 m5-11	72 kg159 lbs	8/5/1996	Ehime, Japan
	Yuki Kobayashi	Midfielder	1.80 m5-11	70 kg154 lbs	10/18/1988	Kanagawa, Japan
	Taishi Matsumoto	Midfielder	1.78 m5-10	66 kg146 lbs	8/22/1998	Saitama, Japan
	Koji Miyoshi	Midfielder	1.67 m5-6	64 kg141 lbs	3/26/1997	Kanagawa, Japan
16	Hidemasa Morita	Midfielder	1.77 m5-10	74 kg163 lbs	5/10/1995	Osaka, Japan
18	Ryota Oshima	Midfielder	1.68 m5-6	64 kg141 lbs	1/23/1993	Shizuoka, Japan
	Kouta Watanabe	Midfielder	1.65 m5-5	61 kg134 lbs	10/18/1998	Kanagawa, Japan
16	Hotaru Yamaguchi	Midfielder	1.73 m5-8	72 kg159 lbs	10/6/1990	Mie, Japan
Forwards
No.	Name	Position	Height	Weight	Birth Date	Birthplace
	Hiroki Abe	Forward	1.71 m5-7	65 kg143 lbs	1/28/1999	Tokyo, Japan
	Koya Kitagawa	Forward	1.80 m5-11	74 kg163 lbs	7/26/1996	Shizuoka, Japan
	Daizen Maeda	Forward	1.73 m5-8	67 kg148 lbs	10/20/1997	Osaka, Japan
	Daiki Suga	Forward	1.71 m5-7	69 kg152 lbs	9/10/1998	Hokkaido, Japan
	Musashi Suzuki	Forward	1.85 m6-1	74 kg163 lbs	2/11/1994	Montego Bay, Jamaica
	Yuma Suzuki	Forward	1.82 m6-0	75 kg165 lbs	4/26/1996	Chiba, Japan
	Ayase Ueda	Forward	1.80 m5-11	72 kg159 lbs	8/28/1998	Japan

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