SAITAMA, Japan--Japan became the first team to qualify for the 2026 World Cup after beating Bahrain 2-0 at Saitama Stadium on Thursday. Second-half goals from Daichi Kamada and Takefusa Kubo ...

Japan are 15th in the Fifa rankings, and Moriyasu and his players firmly believe that they can become the first Asian team to lift the World Cup next summer ... at the 2022 tournament in ...

More than the negative result, as Argentina qualified for the World Cup earlier in the day and then beat them convincingly, Brazil were defeated also for the way they played, as the team coached by ...

Assistants Neuza Back from Brazil and Karen Diaz Medina from Mexico made it an all-female on-field team ... Japan held on to seal a famous win against Spain and send Germany out of the World Cup ...

Excluding co-hosts United States, Mexico and Canada, Japan became the first team to qualify for the ... After securing a place in the 2022 World Cup as hosts -- the first time they had ever ...

believes that the Garuda team has a chance to win against Japan in the final match of the third round of 2026 World Cup qualifiers in Group C on June 10. He sees Japan's position, having already ...