Nigeria vs Japan - Group B in Olympic Men's Soccer

Nigeria will play against Japan in the second-round of Group B at the Olympic men's soccer on Sunday:

Location: Tianjin

Time: Sunday August 10, 5:00 PM 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

Nigeria

Goalkeepers: 1-Ambrose Vanzekin, 18-Ikechukwu Ezenwa

Defenders: 4-Onyekachi Apam, 2-Chibuzo Okonkwo, 5-Ayodele Adeleye, 13-Adefemi Olubayo, 15-Efe Ambrose, 19-Oladapo Olufemi

Midfielders: 17-Emmanuel Ekpo, 8-Sani Kaita, 6-Monday James, 10-Isaac promise, 12-Olufemi Ajilore

Forwards: 14-Peter Odemwingie, 16-Victor Anichebe, 9-Obinna Nsofor, 11-Solomon Okoronkwo, 7-Chinedu Ogbuke

Suspended: None

Injury: None

Referee: Masoud Moradi (Iran)

Linesman: Hassan Kamranifar (Iran), Luay Subhi(Iraq)

(Xinhua News Agency August 10, 2008)

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