Japan 1980s squad

Name: Japan 1980s squad
Creator: Flawless
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Every player who appeared for Japan in the 1980s — 91 in all, with their career international caps and goals.

Masami Ihara racked up the most caps of anyone here — 122 in all. Hiromi Hara leads the scoring with 37. The squad breaks down as 9 goalkeepers, 32 defenders, 33 midfielders and 17 forwards — enough depth to fill any formation in the game.

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Player	Pos	Caps	Goals	Legend
Masami Ihara	DF	122	5	80
Hiromi Hara	FW	75	37	80
Hideki Maeda	MF	65	11	78
Satoshi Tsunami	DF	78	2	78
Kazushi Kimura	MF	54	26	78
Hiroshi Ochiai	MF	63	9	77
Tetsuji Hashiratani	DF	72	6	77
Nobutoshi Kaneda	MF	58	6	75
Hisashi Kato	DF	61	6	75
Mitsuhisa Taguchi	GK	59	—	75
Takumi Horiike	DF	58	2	75
Hiroyuki Usui	FW	38	15	74
Yoshikazu Nagai	FW	69	9	71
Akihiro Nishimura	MF	49	2	71
Masafumi Yokoyama	FW	31	10	71
Shigetatsu Matsunaga	GK	40	—	70
Eijun Kiyokumo	DF	42	0	70
Yasuhiko Okudera	MF	32	9	70
Takashi Mizunuma	MF	32	7	69
Mitsunori Yoshida	MF	35	2	68
Kazuo Saito	DF	32	0	67
Toshio Matsuura	FW	22	6	66
Shinichi Morishita	GK	28	—	66
Keizo Imai	DF	29	0	65
Kenta Hasegawa	FW	27	4	65
Tatsuhiko Seta	GK	25	—	65
Hisashi Kurosaki	FW	24	4	64
Toshinobu Katsuya	DF	27	0	64
Koichi Hashiratani	FW	29	3	64
Osamu Maeda	FW	14	6	63
Koji Tanaka	MF	20	3	62
Takeshi Okada	DF	24	1	62
Satoshi Tezuka	FW	25	2	62
Tetsuo Sugamata	DF	23	0	62
Haruhisa Hasegawa	FW	15	4	61
Tetsuya Totsuka	MF	18	3	61
Kazuo Ozaki	FW	17	3	60
Kiyotaka Matsui	GK	15	—	60
Masanao Sasaki	MF	20	0	59
Satoshi Miyauchi	MF	20	0	59
Takeshi Koshida	DF	19	0	59
Nobuhiro Takeda	FW	18	1	59
Yahiro Kazama	MF	19	0	59
Shinji Tanaka	DF	17	0	58
Katsuyoshi Shinto	DF	15	1	56
Shigemitsu Sudo	DF	13	0	55
Hiroshi Hirakawa	DF	13	0	55
Ryoichi Kawakatsu	MF	13	0	55
Yoshiyuki Matsuyama	MF	10	4	54
Hiroshi Yoshida	FW	9	1	54
Mitsugu Nomura	DF	12	0	54
Yoshinori Ishigami	DF	12	0	54
Yoshio Kato	GK	8	—	53
Yasutaro Matsuki	DF	11	0	53
Yuji Kishioku	DF	10	2	52
Kozo Tashima	FW	7	1	52
Kazumi Tsubota	GK	7	—	52
Toru Sano	DF	9	0	51
Tomoyuki Kajino	DF	9	1	51
Kazuaki Nagasawa	MF	9	0	51
Yutaka Ikeuchi	DF	8	0	50
Tomoyasu Asaoka	MF	8	0	50
Masaaki Mori	MF	8	0	50
Satoru Mochizuki	MF	7	0	49
Tsutomu Sonobe	DF	7	0	49
Hisashi Kaneko	DF	7	1	49
Kazuo Echigo	MF	6	1	49
Yasuharu Kurata	DF	6	0	48
Yukitaka Omi	MF	6	0	48
Atsushi Natori	MF	6	0	48
Yasuhito Suzuki	GK	4	—	48
Ikuo Takahara	FW	4	2	48
Kuniharu Nakamoto	DF	5	0	47
Katsumi Oenoki	MF	5	0	46
Masakuni Yamamoto	DF	4	0	45
Masaaki Kato	MF	3	1	44
Osamu Taninaka	FW	3	0	44
Hiroshi Soejima	MF	3	0	43
Takayoshi Yamano	DF	2	0	41
Toshihiko Okimune	DF	2	0	41
Katsuhiro Kusaki	MF	2	0	41
George Yonashiro	MF	2	0	41
Nobuyo Fujishiro	MF	2	0	41
Atsushi Uchiyama	MF	2	0	41
Satoshi Yamaguchi	GK	1	—	39
Masaru Uchiyama	MF	1	0	38
Toru Yoshikawa	MF	1	0	38
Naoji Ito	MF	1	0	38
Yuji Sugano	MF	1	0	38
Shinobu Ikeda	DF	1	0	38
Hiroyuki Sakashita	DF	1	0	38

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