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Japan 1-1 Costa Rica - April 17, 2002 / Friendlies 2002

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Friendlies 2002 - Intercontinental

Yokohama International Stadium - Yokohama - Japan

April 17, 2002

64 783

Japan

1 - 1

Costa Rica

Tomokazu Myojin

81'

77'

Winston Parks

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46' - Substitution Yasuhiro Hatois substituted by Daisuke Ichikawa photo Alex Santos

46' - Substitution Hiraoki Morishimais substituted by Alex Santos46

46' - Substitution Luis Marínis substituted by Alex Madrigal

67' - Substitution Wilmer Lopezis substituted by Oscar Rojas photo Winston Parks

67' - Substitution Rolando Fonsecais substituted by Winston Parks

69' - Substitution Takayuki Suzukiis substituted by Tatsuhiko Kubo69

75' - Substitution Junichi Inamotois substituted by Tomokazu Myojin75

76' - Substitution Walter Centenois substituted by Daniel Vallejos photo Max Sánchez

76' - Substitution Harold Wallaceis substituted by Max Sánchez

77' - Substitution Shunsuke Nakamurais substituted by Mitsuo Ogasawara77

77' - Goal Winston Parks

81' - Goal Tomokazu Myojin81

85' - Substitution Ronald Gómezis substituted by Steven Bryce

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Japan

1 - 1

Costa Rica

Japan Costa Rica

Team line-ups

Japan

Narazaki

Seigo Narazaki

Japan

B.date15/04/1976

Age26 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

Hato46

Yasuhiro Hato

Japan

B.date04/05/1976

Age25 years

H1m78

positionDefender

Miyamoto

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto

Japan

B.date07/02/1977

Age25 years

H1m76

positionCentral defender

Matsuda

Naoki Matsuda

Japan

B.date14/03/1977

Age25 years

H1m83

positionLeft central defender

Nakata

Koji Nakata

Japan

B.date09/07/1979

Age22 years

H1m82

positionLeft central defender

Fukunishi

Takashi Fukunishi

Japan

B.date01/09/1976

Age25 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

Inamoto75

Junichi Inamoto

Japan

B.date18/09/1979

Age22 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

Morishima46

Hiraoki Morishima

Japan

B.date30/04/1972

Age29 years

H1m68

positionOffensive Midfielder

Nakamura77

Shunsuke Nakamura

Japan

B.date24/06/1978

Age23 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Suzuki69

Takayuki Suzuki

Japan

B.date05/06/1976

Age25 years

H1m82

positionStriker

Nishizawa

Akinori Nishizawa

Japan

B.date18/06/1976

Age25 years

H1m81

positionForward

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Seigo Narazaki		26	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Yasuhiro Hato	46	25	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto		25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Naoki Matsuda		25	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Koji Nakata		22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Takashi Fukunishi		25	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Junichi Inamoto	75	22	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hiraoki Morishima	46	29	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shunsuke Nakamura	77	23	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Takayuki Suzuki	69	25	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Akinori Nishizawa		25	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Costa Rica

Lonnis

Erick Lonnis

Costa Rica

B.date09/09/1965

Age36 years

H1m82

positionGoalkeeper

Marín46

Luis Marín

Costa Rica

B.date10/08/1974

Age27 years

H1m80

positionRight central defender

Martínez

Gilberto Martínez

Costa Rica

B.date01/10/1979

Age22 years

H1m74

positionLeft central defender

Wright

Mauricio Wright

Costa Rica

B.date20/12/1970

Age31 years

H1m75

positionCentral defender

Rodriguez

Juan José Rodriguez

Costa Rica

B.date23/06/1967

Age34 years

positionDefender

Lopez67

Wilmer Lopez

Costa Rica

B.date03/08/1971

Age30 years

H1m72

positionDefensive Midfielder

Solis

Mauricio Solis

Costa Rica

B.date13/12/1972

Age29 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

Centeno76

Walter Centeno

Costa Rica

B.date06/10/1974

Age27 years

H1m73

positionCentre Midfield

Wallace76

Harold Wallace

Costa Rica

B.date04/09/1975

Age26 years

H1m75

positionRight Midfielder

Gómez85

Ronald Gómez

Costa Rica

B.date24/01/1975

Age27 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Fonseca67

Rolando Fonseca

Costa Rica

B.date06/06/1974

Age27 years

H1m72

positionStriker

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Erick Lonnis		36	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Luis Marín	46	27	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gilberto Martínez		22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Mauricio Wright		31	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Juan José Rodriguez		34	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Wilmer Lopez	67	30	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mauricio Solis		29	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Walter Centeno	76	27	36	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Harold Wallace	76	26	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ronald Gómez	85	27	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Rolando Fonseca	67	27	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Daisuke Ichikawa	46	21	4	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alex Santos	46	24	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tomokazu Myojin	8175	24	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Tatsuhiko Kubo	69	25	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mitsuo Ogasawara	77	23	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Alex Madrigal	46	29	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Daniel Vallejos	76	20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Max Sánchez	76	29	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Oscar Rojas	67	22	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Steven Bryce	85	24	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Winston Parks	7767	20	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Hiraoki Morishima

Hidetoshi Nakata

OUT

Takashi Fukunishi

Kazuyuki Toda

OUT

Seigo Narazaki

Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi

OUT

Akinori Nishizawa

Naohiro Takahara

OUT

Shunsuke Nakamura

Shinji Ono

OUT

Yasuhiro Hato

Daisuke Ichikawa

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Rolando Fonseca

Paulo Wanchope

OUT

Walter Centeno

Carlos Castro

OUT

Mauricio Wright

Reynaldo Parks

OUT

Juan José Rodriguez

Steven Bryce

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Philippe Troussier

Success rate in this team:

48 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

46 %

Troussier vs Costa Rica

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 17, 2002

Troussier vs Guimaraes

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 17, 2002

Manager

Age

Match num

Alexandre Guimaraes

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

60 %

Guimaraes vs Japan

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 17, 2002

Guimaraes vs Troussier

0 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on April 17, 2002

Referee

Junjie Huang

3 victories	1 draw	0 loss	Japan4 matches	General total	Costa Rica1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
0 victory	1 draw	0 loss	Japan1 match	Season total	Costa Rica1 match	0 victory	1 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on February 04, 2009					Latest figure on April 17, 2002

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Key figures

Japan keeps its 5 consecutive matches without a loss running (since 07/10/2001). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 04/06/2000-20/12/2000 time period (12 matches).

Japan keeps its 5 matches with at least one goal scored running (since 07/10/2001). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 04/06/2000-20/12/2000 time period (12 matches).

It's the first time Tomokazu Myojin scores 1 goal in Friendlies

Read the next 7 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LJapan 0-1 France10/06/2001

VJapan 2-0 Paraguay01/07/2001

VJapan 1-0 Serbia and Montenegro04/07/2001

VJapan 3-0 Australia15/08/2001

DJapan 1-1 Italy07/11/2001

VJapan 1-0 Ukraine21/03/2002

Overall

VJapan 3-0 Australia15/08/2001

LSenegal 2-0 Japan04/10/2001

DJapan 2-2 Nigeria07/10/2001

DJapan 1-1 Italy07/11/2001

VJapan 1-0 Ukraine21/03/2002

VPoland 0-2 Japan27/03/2002

Current form

Away

DEl Salvador 1-1 Costa Rica03/06/2001

VMexico 1-2 Costa Rica16/06/2001

VHonduras 2-3 Costa Rica01/07/2001

VTrinidad and Tobago 0-2 Costa Rica01/09/2001

VJamaica 0-1 Costa Rica11/11/2001

LUnited States 2-0 Costa Rica02/02/2002

Overall

VJamaica 0-1 Costa Rica11/11/2001

VMartinique 0-2 Costa Rica18/01/2002

DCosta Rica 1-1 Trinidad and Tobago20/01/2002

VCosta Rica 2-1 Haiti26/01/2002

VCosta Rica 3-1 South Korea30/01/2002

LUnited States 2-0 Costa Rica02/02/2002

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	5	4
Drawless streak	1	2
Scoring streak	5	4
Invincibility streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Loosing streak	1	1
Winless streak	1	1
Drawless streak	5	3
Goalless streak	1	1
Conceding streak	1	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Results

2	Number of games (Competition total)	0
1	Number of games (Home / Away)	0
2	Victories (Competition total)	0
1	Victories (Home / Away)	0
0	Draws (Competition total)	0
0	Draws (Home / Away)	0
0	Losses (Competition total)	0
0	Losses (Home / Away)	0

Goals

3	Goals scored (Competition total)	0
1	Goals scored (Home / Away)	0
0	Goals conceded (Competition total)	0
0	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	0
1.5	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0
1	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	0
0	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	0

Betting aid

0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
0	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	0
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	0
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0
0	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	0
1-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0

Bookings

2	Yellow cards (Competition total)	0
2	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	0
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Hidetoshi Nakata	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	-
Kazuyuki Toda	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	-
Hidetoshi Nakata	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	-

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

0 ga

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

3 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

3 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	August 06, 1995
Home	3 - 0	August 06, 1995

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

August 06, 1995 - Rencontres amicales 1995

Japan

3 - 0

Costa Rica logo Costa Rica

Best historical scorers against Costa Rica

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa	1 goal	1995 - 1995
Hiroshi Nanami	1 goal	1995 - 1995
Masahiro Fukuda	1 goal	1995 - 1995

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/08/1995. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Japan

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/08/1995. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Costa Rica

Hiroshige Yanagimoto	1 match	1995 - 1995
Motohiro Yamaguchi	1 match	1995 - 1995
Hiraoki Morishima	1 match	1995 - 1995
Hiroshi Nanami	1 match	1995 - 1995
Hisashi Kurosaki	1 match	1995 - 1995
Kazuyoshi Miura	1 match	1995 - 1995