Japan captain Maya Yoshida calls on Japanese soccer to set bar even higher

Doha – Japan captain Maya Yoshida stated Sunday his staff should not be glad with what its has achieved thus far on the Qatar World Cup and as a substitute must be aiming to lift the bar larger.

“For Japanese soccer to go one stage larger, we should turn out to be a staff that persistently will get previous the group stage,” he stated on the Japan coaching base in Doha a day forward of a sudden loss of life spherical of 16 sport in opposition to Croatia.

“We’ve reached the spherical of 16 at successive World Cups for the primary time. However I all the time say, we shouldn’t be glad with this consequence. We must always create a brand new web page in historical past.”