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The story
Following its board meeting on the 20th, the Japan Football Association announced the coaching staff for the national team heading into the AFC Asian Cup 2027, confirming that Hiroshi Nawa, Shunsuke Nakamura, Makoto Hasebe, and four others will all stay on. Manager Hajime Moriyasu’s contract also runs only through the Asian Cup, and on 5ch’s live-discussion threads, fans traded opinions over what to expect from Tsuyoshi Oiwa going forward, as well as the apparent aim of using Hasebe’s role with an eye toward a future stint as national team manager.
Japan’s national team coaching staff confirmed to continue! Coach Hiroshi Nawa, Coach Shunsuke Nakamura, Coach Makoto Hasebe, and all 7 members retained from the North/Central America World Cup
The Japan Football Association (JFA) held a board meeting on the 20th, followed by a press briefing. Managing Director Kazuyuki Yukawa announced that, per a resolution from the Technical Committee, the coaching staff for the Japan national team through the AFC Asian Cup 2027 has been decided.
Manager Hajime Moriyasu’s contract runs through the AFC Asian Cup 2027, to be held in Saudi Arabia in January 2027.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Okada had to take over suddenly because of Kamo's screw-up, but
national team managers really ought to learn the ropes as a J.League manager first.
I don't think Hasebe needs to go through the J.League route.
If he burns almost 10 years on J.League plus national team manager, that leaves way less time to manage overseas.
Strike while the iron's hot — while there's demand for him, he should head to Frankfurt or wherever in the Bundesliga if there's an offer.
Don't make him inherit this bloated coaching staff the last manager picked out of personal favoritism — is this Yamamoto's doing?
Both the manager and the coaches are only signed through the Asian Cup.
Oiwa gets a say after that.
Oiwa's going to carry on Moriyasu's approach.
Fine if it were a new manager, but Moriyasu's on his way out anyway.
Bring Oiwa in as coach, build the squad around the Olympic-age players, and go win the thing with that lineup, you idiots.
Don't act so high and mighty, you scrub who can barely scrape into the round of 32 lol
Nawa's contribution was huge.
Go look up the national team's scoring output and win rate since he came on board.
It was the best it's ever been.
Let them focus on their clubs instead of the Asian Cup.
Yeah, let's not call up the Premier League players for the World Cup or the Olympics either — let them focus on their clubs ❤
Football: rehab sport for guys pushing retirement age lol
That's soccer for you lol
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So what are you guys gonna do now lol
Losing it at this hour???
why call up these coaches when they haven't even delivered results?
And where exactly are these coaches who 'have results'?
Makes no sense.
Honda's completely out of the picture at this point.
He's off shouting 'let me be national team manager' all on his own, but nobody's paying him any attention.
Background and Key Points
The Japan Football Association (JFA) sets national-team staffing through its board and Technical Committee, and it has traditionally tied contracts to tournament cycles rather than fixed calendar terms. Hajime Moriyasu, who led Japan through the 2026 World Cup in North/Central America, has now been reappointed only through the AFC Asian Cup 2027, which Saudi Arabia will host in January rather than the usual mid-year slot. The seven-person staff being retained intact — including Hiroshi Nawa, former Japan playmaker Shunsuke Nakamura, and ex-captain Makoto Hasebe — reflects a long-standing JFA pattern of promoting from within its own coaching pipeline rather than importing outside staff, and of using short-term contracts as an evaluation window before committing further.
The thread’s actual disagreement isn’t over whether to keep the staff, which the JFA had already decided, but over what should happen next: several posters want incoming coach Tsuyoshi Oiwa to be free to build his own staff after the Asian Cup rather than inherit Moriyasu’s picks, while others insist he’ll simply continue Moriyasu’s approach regardless. A second, sharper split concerns Hasebe — whether he should first manage in the J.League to “earn” the national job the way past managers did, or skip that route entirely and take a European offer while his profile is hot, since a decade split between J.League and the national team would cost him his overseas window.
What outsiders may miss is that these are coaching, not managerial, contracts — Moriyasu’s job itself isn’t guaranteed beyond January 2027, and nothing here confirms Oiwa or Hasebe as his successor, despite posters already debating succession as if it were settled.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Football] Japan National Team Coaching Staff Decided! Coach Hiroshi Nawa, Coach Shunsuke Nakamura, Coach Makoto Hasebe, and All 7 Retained from the World Cup.”
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