Japan's 2022 World Cup Record

At present, the World Cup knockout is about to reach the final of14, which means that in addition to the 16 team eliminated in the group stage, eight teams have also completed all the competition tasks of this tournament in the knockout stage. At present, the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 9- 16 team rankings have been released:

Among the eliminated teams, Japan finally won the ninth place, which is also the highest ranked team in the final of 1/8, creating the best result in Japan's history since 1998 first entered the World Cup finals.

Although they also topped 16 in 2002, 20 10 and 20 18, and ranked ninth in 2002 and 20 10 World Cup finals, Germany and Spain, which they defeated successively in this World Cup, were former World Cup champions, and it was the first time that they passed the penalty.

Judging from the scores and performance.

Japan only lost to Costa Rica in four group matches, and the remaining three games remained unbeaten against three strong European teams: Germany, Spain and Croatia. Some people say that Japan's performance in the penalty shootout was too poor, but after watching the performance in the first120th minute, there is no need to leave in frustration. It is said that the progress of Japanese football has stunned the top European teams.

The continuous blowout of football talents is a powerful guarantee for them to have a large number of high-quality professional players in Europe. Japanese football has tasted the sweetness on the road of continuing to pay close attention to youth training in the past 30 years. Some people even predict that they will be able to attack the champions in the next few World Cups.