Information about the opponents of the Vietnam women's futsal team in the quarter-finals of the Asian tournament

The Vietnam Futsal female team is at the top of Group B, will meet the Japanese female futsal in the quarterfinals of Asian Futsal Asian 2025. The winning team will fight with Taiwanese women (China) or Iran in the semi -finals and have the opportunity to win tickets to the World Cup in the Philippines.

This is a big challenge for the Vietnamese team, because in the friendly match before the Asian tournament, the team lost 1-4 to the Japanese women's team on April 25.

The Japanese women's futsal team has a very clear goal in this year's Asian tournament, which is to win the championship. They have won the runner-up position twice in 2015 and 2018 when they both lost to Iran women's team in the final.

The Japan Football Association (JFA) homepage has shared interesting information about the country's women's futsal team. Accordingly, the team's coach is Takehiro Suga, who has led the team since 2021.

He applied the concept of admiration and empathy to the team, aiming to create a team that not only wins in matches but is also admired by everyone and will be sympathized and supported by everyone.

Aiming to win the championship and qualify for the World Cup, the Japanese women's team has called up more than 40 players, trained in countries such as Spain, Portugal and Thailand, and organized domestic training sessions to promote and strengthen this concept.

Since Suga took over as coach, the Japanese women's team has only lost 1 match against Asian teams. That was the 1-3 loss to the Thai women's team on the evening of May 11.

During the tour to Portugal in March 2024, the women's team faced the three strongest teams in the world and surprised the world with their first 2-0 victory over European champion Spain.

At this year's Asian tournament, the Japanese women's team set a slogan "let's become the hardest person in the world". Accordingly, the team is determined to fight with all their might and use the playing style to maximize team spirit, diligence and perseverance which are characteristics of the Japanese players.

The team's members are aged between 22 and 36, including players who have switched from 11-a-side football to futsal and players who have played futsal since their early years. They have 4 players who lost in the 2018 Asian Cup final: Eguchi Mika (Baldral Urayasu Las Bonitas), Yonai Saki, Egawa Ryo and Amishiro Anna (S Whyadies Nishinomiya).

13/14 players of the Japanese women's team are playing domestically, except for goalkeeper Yuria Sudo (who is playing in Spain). According to the JFA, most domestic players do not have professional contracts.

The players all practice in the evening after school or work hours, and play and practice on weekends. It is not an exaggeration to say that women's futsal in Japan is a sport that is enthusiastically supported by the players. To popularise women's futsal, all players share the same desire to have more people know about futsal and to achieve that, the team wants to participate in the FIFA World Cup futsal, JFA shared.