Japan will play against the United States in their opening match of Group B in Olympic men's soccer on Thursday:

Location: Tianjin

Time: Thursday August 7, 1700 local time

Olympic Capacity: 60,000

Squad

Japan

Goalkeepers: 18-Kaito Yamamoto, 1-Shusaku Nishikawa

Defenders: 4-Hiroki Mizumoto, 5-Yuto Nagatomo, 6-Masato Morishige, 13-Michihiro Yasuda, 7-Atsuto Uchida, 3-Maya Yoshida

Midfielders: 16-Takuya Honda, 12-Hiroyuki Taniguchi, 10-Yohei Kajiyama, 2-Hajime Hosogai, 8-Keisuke Honda, 14-Shinji Kagawa

Forwards: 9-Yohei Toyoda, 17-Tadanari Lee, 11-Shinji Okazaki, 15-Takayuki Morimoto

US

Goalkeepers: 18-Brad Guzan, 1-Chris Seitz

Defenders: 3-Michael Orozco, 15-Michael Parkhurst, 2-Marvell Wynne, 6-Maurice Edu, 13-Patrick Ianni, 5-Dax McCarty

Midfielders: 4-Michael Bradley, 7-Stuart Holden, 16-Sacha Kljestan, 11-Freddy Adu, 8-Danny Szetela, 10-Benny Feilhaber

Forwards: 12-Jozy Altidore, 17-Brian McBride, 9-Charlie Davies, 14-Robbie Rogers

Suspended: None

Injury: None

Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

Linesman: Everist Menkouande (Cameroon), Bechir Hassani (Tunisia)

(Xinhua News Agency August 7, 2008)