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Japan 1-4 Brazil - June 22, 2006 / World Cup 2006

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World Cup 2006 - Round 3 - Group F

Signal Iduna Park - Dortmund - Germany

June 22, 2006

1 - 4

Brazil

Assist by Alex Santos (left foot) Keiji Tamada

34'

45'

Ronaldo (header) Assist by Cicinho

53'

Juninho (right foot)

59'

Gilberto (left foot) Assist by Ronaldinho

81'

Ronaldo (right foot) Assist by Juan

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34' - Goal Keiji Tamada34

45' - Goal Ronaldo

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53' - Goal Juninho

56' - Substitution Mitsuo Ogasawarais substituted by Koji Nakata56

59' - Goal Gilberto

60' - Substitution Seiichiro Makiis substituted by Naohiro Takahara60

66' - Substitution Naohiro Takaharais substituted by Masashi Oguro66

71' - Substitution Ronaldinhois substituted by Zé Roberto photo Ricardinho

71' - Substitution Kakáis substituted by Ricardinho

81' - Goal Ronaldo

82' - Substitution Didais substituted by Rogério Ceni

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Team line-ups

Japan

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Tamada34

Keiji Tamada

Japan

B.date11/04/1980

Age26 years

H1m73

positionSecond striker

Maki60

Seiichiro Maki

Japan

B.date07/08/1980

Age25 years

H1m84

positionForward

Nakamura

Shunsuke Nakamura

Japan

B.date24/06/1978

Age27 years

H1m78

positionOffensive Midfielder

Inamoto

Junichi Inamoto

Japan

B.date18/09/1979

Age26 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

H. Nakata

Hidetoshi Nakata

Japan

B.date22/01/1977

Age29 years

H1m75

positionOffensive Midfielder

Ogasawara56

Mitsuo Ogasawara

Japan

B.date05/04/1979

Age27 years

H1m73

positionPlaymaker

Santos

Alex Santos

Japan

B.date20/07/1977

Age28 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

Nakazawa

Yuji Nakazawa

Japan

B.date25/02/1978

Age28 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

Tsuboi

Keisuke Tsuboi

Japan

B.date16/09/1979

Age26 years

H1m79

positionCentral defender

Kaji

Akira Kaji

Japan

B.date13/01/1980

Age26 years

H1m75

positionRight full-back

Kawaguchi

Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi

Japan

B.date15/08/1975

Age30 years

H1m79

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi		30	92	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Keisuke Tsuboi		26	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Yuji Nakazawa		28	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Alex Santos		28	75	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Akira Kaji		26	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Junichi Inamoto		26	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Mitsuo Ogasawara	56	27	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Shunsuke Nakamura		27	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Hidetoshi Nakata		29	78	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Seiichiro Maki	60	25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Keiji Tamada	34	26	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.1 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Brazil

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

Robinho

Brazil

B.date25/01/1984

Age22 years

H1m72

positionVersatile Forward

Ronaldo8145

Ronaldo

Brazil

B.date22/09/1976

Age29 years

H1m83

positionStriker

Ronaldinho71

Ronaldinho

Brazil

B.date21/03/1980

Age26 years

H1m81

positionPlaymaker

Kaká71

Kaká

Brazil

B.date22/04/1982

Age24 years

H1m86

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

Silva

Gilberto Silva

Brazil

B.date07/10/1976

Age29 years

H1m85

positionDefensive Midfielder

Juninho53

Juninho

Brazil

B.date30/01/1975

Age31 years

H1m78

positionLeft central midfielder

Gilberto59

Gilberto

Brazil

B.date25/04/1976

Age30 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

Juan

Brazil

B.date01/02/1979

Age27 years

H1m81

positionCentral defender

Lúcio

Brazil

B.date08/05/1978

Age28 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

Cicinho

Brazil

B.date24/06/1980

Age25 years

H1m72

positionRight full-back

Dida82

Dida

Brazil

B.date07/10/1973

Age32 years

H1m95

positionGoalkeeper

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Dida	82	32	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Juan		27	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Lúcio		28	53	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Cicinho		25	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
D	Gilberto	59	30	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Gilberto Silva		29	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Juninho	53	31	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ronaldinho	71	26	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Kaká	71	24	41	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Ronaldo	8145	29	95	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Robinho		22	26	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

			Age	Match num	Note
D	Koji Nakata	56	26	56	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Naohiro Takahara	6066	27	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
F	Masashi Oguro	66	26	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

			Age	Match num	Note
G	Rogério Ceni	82	33	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Zé Roberto	71	31	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
M	Ricardinho	71	30	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Seiichiro Maki

Atsushi Yanagisawa

OUT

Keiji Tamada

Naohiro Takahara

OUT

Keisuke Tsuboi

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto

OUT

Junichi Inamoto

Takashi Fukunishi

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Cicinho

Cafu

OUT

Gilberto

Roberto Carlos

OUT

Juninho

Émerson

OUT

Gilberto Silva

Zé Roberto

OUT

Robinho

Adriano

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Zico

Success rate in this team:

51 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

51 %

Zico vs Brazil

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 22, 2006

Zico vs Parreira

0 victory

1 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on June 22, 2006

Manager

Age

Match num

Carlos Alberto Parreira

111

Success rate in this team:

53 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Parreira vs Japan

3 victories

2 draws

0 loss

Latest figure on June 22, 2006

Parreira vs Zico

1 victory

1 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on June 22, 2006

Referee

Eric Poulat

0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Japan1 match	General total	Brazil1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
0 victory	0 draw	1 loss	Japan1 match	Season total	Brazil1 match	1 victory	0 draw	0 loss
Latest figure on June 22, 2006					Latest figure on June 22, 2006

Videos

May 12, 2010

Comments

Key figures

Brazil keeps its 10 consecutive wins surterrainneutre in World Cup running (since 03/06/2002). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 02/07/1982 (8 matches)

Brazil keeps its 11 consecutive matches without a draw in World Cup running (since 12/07/1998). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 21/06/1978-16/06/1986 time period (11 matches).

It's the first time Juninho scores 1 goal in World Cup

Read the next 23 key stats

General ranking

1	Brazil	9 pts	3 rd
2	Australia	4 pts	3 rd
3	Croatia	2 pts	3 rd
4	Japan	1 pt	3 rd

General ranking

1	Brazil	9 pts	3 rd
2	Australia	4 pts	3 rd
3	Croatia	2 pts	3 rd
4	Japan	1 pt	3 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Neutral ground

LNorth Korea 1-0 Japan31/07/2005

DJapan 2-2 China03/08/2005

DBosnia and Herzegovina 2-2 Japan28/02/2006

VJapan 1-0 Malta04/06/2006

LAustralia 3-1 Japan12/06/2006

DJapan 0-0 Croatia18/06/2006

Overall

LJapan 1-2 Bulgaria09/05/2006

DJapan 0-0 Scotland13/05/2006

DGermany 2-2 Japan30/05/2006

VJapan 1-0 Malta04/06/2006

LAustralia 3-1 Japan12/06/2006

DJapan 0-0 Croatia18/06/2006

Current form

Neutral ground

LMexico 1-0 Brazil19/06/2005

DJapan 2-2 Brazil22/06/2005

VBrazil 4-1 Argentina29/06/2005

VBrazil 4-0 New Zealand04/06/2006

VBrazil 1-0 Croatia13/06/2006

VBrazil 2-0 Australia18/06/2006

Overall

VBrazil 3-0 Venezuela12/10/2005

VUnited Arab Emirates 0-8 Brazil12/11/2005

VRussia 0-1 Brazil01/03/2006

VBrazil 4-0 New Zealand04/06/2006

VBrazil 1-0 Croatia13/06/2006

VBrazil 2-0 Australia18/06/2006

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Winless streak	2	2
Goalless streak	1	1
Invincibility streak	1	1

Running streaks

	Neutral ground	Total
Winning streak	4	6
Unbeaten streak	5	12
Drawless streak	4	6
Scoring streak	5	12
Invincibility streak	3	6

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

General ranking (Competition total)

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

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

Goals

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

Betting aid

1	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	0
1	Clean sheets (Competition total)	2
1	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	0
1	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	0

Bookings

6	Yellow cards (Competition total)	4
0	Red cards (Competition total)	0

Key players

Shunsuke Nakamura	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	1 goal	Adriano
Shunsuke Nakamura	1 goal	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	1 goal	Adriano
Yuichi Komano	1 assist	Player with most assists (Competition total)	1 assist	Cafu
Yuichi Komano	1 assist	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Cafu
Shunsuke Nakamura	1 goal during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	1 goal during the last match	Adriano

Historical head to head

Home

4 matches

0 v

1 d

3 l

1 gf

10 ga

Away

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

0 v

1 d

1 l

2 gf

5 ga

Total

7 matches

0 v

2 d

5 l

3 gf

16 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Away

4 matches

3 v

1 d

0 l

10 gf

1 ga

Neutral ground

2 matches

1 v

1 d

0 l

5 gf

2 ga

Total

7 matches

5 v

2 d

0 l

16 gf

3 ga

Largest victory

No success yet

Largest victory

Overall	5 - 1	August 09, 1995
Neutral ground	3 - 0	June 06, 1995

Latest head to head

June 22, 2005 - Coupe des Confédérations 2005

Japan

2 - 2

Brazil

June 04, 2001 - Coupe des Confédérations 2001

Japan

0 - 0

Brazil

March 31, 1999 - Rencontres amicales 1999

Japan

0 - 2

Brazil

August 13, 1997 - Rencontres amicales 1997

Japan

0 - 3

Brazil

August 09, 1995 - Rencontres amicales 1995

Japan

1 - 5

Brazil

Best historical scorers against Brazil

Shunsuke Nakamura	1 goal	2005 - 2005
Masashi Oguro	1 goal	2005 - 2005
Masahiro Fukuda	1 goal	1995 - 1995

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 23/07/1989. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Japan

Zinho	2 goals	1995 - 1995
Flávio Conceição	2 goals	1997 - 1997
Ronaldinho	1 goal	2005 - 2005
César Sampaio	1 goal	1995 - 1995
Edmundo	1 goal	1995 - 1995
Júnior Baiano	1 goal	1997 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 23/07/1989. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Brazil

Masami Ihara	5 matches	1989 - 1999
Hidetoshi Nakata	4 matches	1997 - 2005
Naoki Soma	4 matches	1995 - 1999
Motohiro Yamaguchi	3 matches	1995 - 1997
Hisashi Kurosaki	3 matches	1989 - 1995
Kazuyoshi Miura	3 matches	1995 - 1997

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 23/07/1989. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Japan

Dunga	4 matches	1989 - 1997
André Cruz	3 matches	1989 - 1997
Juninho Paulista	3 matches	1995 - 1997
Leonardo	3 matches	1995 - 1997
Cafu	2 matches	1997 - 1999
César Sampaio	2 matches	1995 - 1997