Japan 1970s squad

Name: Japan 1970s squad
Creator: Flawless
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Every player who appeared for Japan in the 1970s — 77 in all, with their career international caps and goals.

Hiromi Hara racked up the most caps of anyone here — 75 in all. Kunishige Kamamoto leads the scoring with 55. The squad breaks down as 6 goalkeepers, 23 defenders, 25 midfielders and 23 forwards — enough depth to fill any formation in the game.

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Player	Pos	Caps	Goals	Legend
Hiromi Hara	FW	75	37	79
Kunishige Kamamoto	FW	61	55	79
Teruki Miyamoto	MF	58	19	78
Kazushi Kimura	MF	54	26	78
Hideki Maeda	MF	65	11	78
Aritatsu Ogi	MF	62	11	78
Hiroshi Ochiai	MF	63	9	77
Nobuo Fujishima	MF	65	7	77
Mitsuhisa Taguchi	GK	59	—	76
Hisashi Kato	DF	61	6	76
Nobutoshi Kaneda	MF	58	6	76
Kenzo Yokoyama	GK	49	—	75
Hiroyuki Usui	FW	38	15	74
Daishirō Yoshimura	MF	46	7	74
Takaji Mori	MF	56	2	74
Yoshitada Yamaguchi	DF	49	0	73
Kozo Arai	DF/MF	47	4	73
Ryuichi Sugiyama	FW	45	10	72
Masakatsu Miyamoto	DF	44	1	72
Kuniya Daini	DF	44	0	72
Yoshikazu Nagai	FW	69	9	72
Eijun Kiyokumo	DF	42	0	71
Masafumi Yokoyama	FW	31	10	71
Yasuhiko Okudera	MF	32	9	71
Hiroshi Katayama	DF	38	0	70
Nobuo Kawakami	DF/MF	41	0	68
Atsuyoshi Furuta	DF	32	0	67
Kazuo Saito	DF	32	0	67
Mitsuo Watanabe	FW	28	4	66
Tatsuhiko Seta	GK	25	—	65
Mitsunori Fujiguchi	MF	26	2	65
Keizo Imai	DF	29	0	65
Tadahiko Ueda	FW	13	7	64
Koji Funamoto	GK	19	—	62
Haruhisa Hasegawa	FW	15	4	62
Tetsuo Sugamata	DF	23	0	62
Takeo Takahashi	FW	14	4	61
Yasuyuki Kuwahara	FW	12	5	61
Masaki Yokotani	DF	20	0	60
Toshio Takabayashi	FW	12	2	58
Kazumi Takada	FW	16	0	58
Akira Matsunaga	FW	10	2	58
Yoshio Kikugawa	DF	16	0	57
Shigemi Ishii	DF	15	0	57
Akira Nishino	MF	12	1	55
Shigemitsu Sudo	DF	13	0	55
Minoru Kobata	MF	13	0	54
Kozo Tashima	FW	7	1	54
Shusaku Hirasawa	MF	11	1	54
Yuji Kishioku	DF	10	2	52
Kiyoshi Tomizawa	DF	9	2	51
Kazuaki Nagasawa	MF	9	0	51
Yusuke Omi	FW	5	1	50
Kazuyoshi Nakamura	FW	5	1	50
Michio Ashikaga	MF	7	0	49
Tsutomu Sonobe	DF	7	0	49
Yoshiichi Watanabe	MF	6	1	48
Ichiro Hosotani	FW	4	1	48
Yukitaka Omi	MF	6	0	48
Eizo Yuguchi	MF	5	1	47
Noritaka Hidaka	FW	4	0	47
Hiroji Imamura	FW	4	0	47
Masafumi Hara	DF	5	0	46
Teruo Nimura	MF	5	0	46
Hisao Sekiguchi	FW	3	1	45
Norio Yoshimizu	MF	4	1	45
Seiichi Sakiya	FW	3	0	44
Katsuyuki Kawachi	MF	3	0	43
George Kobayashi	MF	3	0	43
Takeshi Ono	DF	3	0	43
Mitsuru Komaeda	MF	2	2	42
Toyohito Mochizuki	DF	2	0	41
Kazuhisa Kono	DF	1	0	38
Shigeharu Ueki	FW	1	0	38
Michio Yasuda	GK	1	—	38
Choei Sato	GK	1	—	38
Mitsuo Kato	MF	1	0	37

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