Southampton's Japan international defender Maya Yoshida on Saturday offered his support to the victims of the series of powerful earthquakes that have rocked his native Kyushu over the past few days. Speaking after Southampton's 1-1 draw away to Everton in the Premier League, Yoshida, who ...
Halilhodzic pleased with results from new system
National team manager Vahid Halilhodzic has challenged Japan to make it through the second round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers without conceding a goal after claiming a seventh clean sheet in seven games in Thursday's 5-0 win over Afghanistan. Group E leader Japan takes on ...
Japan thrashes Afghanistan in World Cup qualifier
Japan virtually guaranteed its place in the final round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers with a 5-0 win over Afghanistan on Thursday. Leicester City striker Shinji Okazaki celebrated his 99th international appearance by opening the scoring in the 43rd minute at Saitama Stadium, before second-half ...
Japan defender Maya Yoshida scored in Southampton's 1-0 win over West Ham on Saturday, striking his first Premier League goal of the season as the 10-man Saints held on for the points. Yoshida, playing for the first time in five games, ran onto a ball ...
Mu Kanazaki marked his return from the international wilderness with his first national team goal as Japan whipped Singapore 3-0 on Thursday in a second-round Asian qualifier for the 2018 World Cup. Kanazaki opened the scoring after 20 minutes with a fine effort and Keisuke ...
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman is still hobbling around on crutches after an Achilles operation. His team is limping just as badly in the Premier League. The South Coast club has earned just a point from its first two games of the new season, with Saturday's ...
Yoshida finds silver lining in tough practices
As Japan's weeklong training camp wrapped up in Chiba on Sunday, Maya Yoshida felt he had been pushed to the max by new coach Vahid Halilhodzic. But the Southampton center back reckons he will reap the benefits and be in tip-top shape for next week's ...
Yoshida urges Japan to forget World Cup flop
Southampton defender Maya Yoshida has told his Japan teammates to flush the World Cup out of their system and try and restore bruised pride by giving new coach Javier Aguirre a win against Uruguay on Friday in his first game in charge. Eliminated in the ...
Yoshida excited to face Cote d'Ivoire in opener
Southampton defender Maya Yoshida is hoping he can draw on the experience of having faced some of Cote d'Ivoire's big guns at club level as he prepares for the biggest game of his career in Japan's opener at the World Cup finals on Saturday. Yoshida ...
Zaccheroni not satisfied with victory over Zambia
Japan manager Alberto Zaccheroni says Samurai Blue have their work cut out in the coming week ahead of their World Cup opener against Cote d'Ivoire, and was far from pleased despite the team wrapping up its training camp with a thrilling 4-3 win over ...
Yoshida eyes England showdown at World Cup
Southampton central defender Maya Yoshida admits he is excited by the prospect of Japan playing England in the second round of the World Cup finals, but reckons Roy Hodgson's men could find it difficult to progress from the group phase. Japan has been drawn in ...
Venlo chief eyes new Japanese talent
VVV Venlo may have taken its eye off the ball when it opted not to sign Shinji Kagawa. But the Dutch second-division side cashed in on the sale of both Keisuke Honda and Maya Yoshida, and chairman Hai Berden says the club is happy to ...
