JAPAN 1:3 AUSTRALIA (1:0) Nakamura (26). (12.06.06, Kaiserslautern - 46, 000)
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Yuichi Komano, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (c), Alessandro Santos, Keisuke Tsuboi (Teruyuki Moniwa 56, Masashi Oguro 91), Yuji Nakazawa, Takashi Fukunishi, Hidetoshi Nakata, Shunzuke Nakamura, Naohiro Takahara, Atsushi Yanagisawa (Shinji Ono 79)
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JAPAN 0:0 CROATIA (18.06.06, Nuremburg - 41, 000)
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Akira Kaji, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (c), Alessandro Santos, Mitsuo Ogasawara, Yuji Nakazawa, Takashi Fukunishi (Junichi Inamoto 45), Hidetoshi Nakata, Shunzuke Nakamura, Naohiro Takahara (Masashi Oguro 85), Atsushi Yanagisawa (Keiji Tamada 61)
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JAPAN 1:4 BRAZIL (1:0) Tamada (33). (22.06.06, Dortmund - 65, 000)
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi, Keisuke Tsuboi, Akira Kaji, Alessandro Santos, Mitsuo Ogasawara (Koji Nakata 56), Yuji Nakazawa (c), Junichi Inamoto, Hidetoshi Nakata, Seiichiro Maki (Naohiro Takahara 60, Masashi Oguro 66), Shunzuke Nakamura, Keiji Tamada
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(The pictures above show Yoshikatsu during the match against Australia at the 2006 World Cup.)