Japan Futsal National Team traveled from Osijek, where they played against Croatia in their second international friendly, to Prague through Austria on 2 December.

The team held a video meeting in the morning of the 3rd. They looked back the Croatia contests and shared what they did good and what they needed to improve with the entire squad.

The team also began their training from 7 p.m., mainly focusing on recovery menus for about an hour and 15 minutes.

The team, who  have come halfway through in their European trip, started their preparation for the first game against the Czech Republic that will be played on the 6th.

International Friendly Match vs Czech Republic Futsal National Team
Match 1st　6 p.m. kickoff, on 6 December

Players' Comments

TANAKA Toshinori (FUCHU ATHLETIC F.C.)
We traveled the entire day yesterday for our game against the Czech Republic, so we tuned up our condition and I feel I refreshed both my physicality and mentality today. We now only need to focus on our training that starts from tomorrow to elaborate our plays as the team toward the two games against the Czech Republic. We don't want to waste the losing experience against Croatia and would like to do our best in the remaining time, sticking to coming up with the best results we could have in those games.

SAKAI Rafael Yoshio (NAGOYA OCEANS)
It was really frustrating that we ended up losing both games against Croatia. This is my first experience to be participating in a national team training camp, so I would like to have better results in the games against the Czech Republic. Now our team have switched our mindset after the defeats, and we would like to do our best playing as one, trying to come up with the best results. Hopefully we will have supports from our fans as well.

Schedule

*Local time
*The schedule is subject to change due to the team condition, etc.