These days, we have an army of digitally literate football fans ready to pore over every decision and provide their own evidence. On 8 June 2005, Japan qualified for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, its third consecutive World Cup, by beating North Korea 2–0 on neutral ground. Lionel Messi finally achieves his World Cup dream as Argentina win their third crown on penalties following one of the greatest finals in the tournament's history at Lusail Stadium.

However, in its first attempt to qualify with professional players, Japan narrowly missed a ticket to the 1994 World Cup after drawing with Iraq in the final match of the qualification round, remembered by fans as the " Agony of Doha". The newly named “Hong Kong Football Association, China” duly complied and the newly named national team, Hong Kong, China, was born. A man in Arabic attire walks through an alley at Souk Waqif decorated with the flags of countries participating in the Asian Cup, a major international soccer tournament, in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Jan. We are always required to win in any game and championship we partake in,” Qatar captain Hassan Al Haydos said. Palestine won 3-0, ending Hong Kong’s involvement in the tournament, but this was a very different national team, and political environment, compared with 2019.S. flag football teams in the National NFL Flag Championship - after winning the 2023 NFL Flag International Division last season. With young girls and boys from 12 nations competing, we're proud of the inclusiveness and diversity of Flag Football and its power to attract new, youthful audiences," he added. Japan made history in the 2018 FIFA World Cup by defeating Colombia 2–1, their first ever victory by any AFC team against a CONMEBOL team in an official tournament, [52] as well as Japan's first ever victory at the FIFA World Cup finals in UEFA nations. The crest features the Yatagarasu, a three-legged crow from Japanese mythology that is a symbol for the sun, holding a solid red ball that is like the sun from national flag. The three individual names were selected from shortlists by users on the Internet and at McDonald's outlets in the host countries.

In 1991, the owners of the semi-professional Japan Soccer League agreed to disband the league and re-form as the professional J. a b "12/28(水)17時30分～ SAMURAI BLUE（日本代表）監督就任会見をJFATVにてインターネットライブ配信" [SAMURAI BLUE (Japan National Team) Inauguration Press Conference will be streamed live on JFATV on 28 December 2022].Japan won its opening match at the 2015 AFC Asian Cup in Group D against Asian Cup debutantes Palestine 4–0, with goals from Yasuhito Endō, Shinji Okazaki, Keisuke Honda via a penalty and Maya Yoshida. But with the avenues for dissent growing narrower under Hong Kong’s post-protest security regime, and the threat of jail hanging over them, few fans could speak out. Saudi Arabia is quickly becoming the second nation from the region to host soccer’s biggest tournament. They are designed fly like small airplanes and fly along landscapes where they could be harder to detect by radar.

The team won all their games in the group stage but were eliminated in the quarter-finals after a 2–0 loss to Kuwait.Both Japan and Saudi Arabia also gained headlines for producing "unexpected" wins in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with Japan earning wins against Germany and Spain and Saudi Arabia against Argentina in the group stage.