Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Aberdeen - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - February 18, 2023 Celtic's Reo Hatate celebrates scoring their third goal REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Daizen Maeda will have two very familiar faces on international duty next month with Kyogo Furuhashi and Reo Hatate called up for the Kirrin Cup.
Japan will play El Salvador on June 15 then Peru five days later with Celtic represented by three players.
With Celtic’s first pre-season match falling on July 19 against Yokohama F Marinos it means less than a month off for three key members of Ange Postecoglou’s squad.
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Wataru Endo
Takuma Asano
Hidemasa Morita
Daichi Kamada
Kaoru Mitoma
Reo Hatate
Ayase Ueda
Keito Nakamura
Sota Kawasaki
Junya Ito
Kyogo Furuhashi
Hayao Kawabe
Yuki Soma
Daizen Maeda
Ritsu Doan
Takumu Kawamura
Takefusa Kubo— Dan Orlowitz (@aishiterutokyo) May 25, 2023
Maeda as been a regular in Hajime Moriyasu’s squad, scoring in the World Cup Finals against Croatia as Japan reached the last 16 of the competition.
Moriyasu has seemed to be lukewarm to the talents of Kyogo and Hatate but with two matches and a 10 day training camp the Celtic duo have the opportunity to impress their international manager.
Celtic’s final match of this season is on June 3 against Inverness Caley Thistle with the new season starting on August 5/6 with the fixtures announced at the end of June.
Congratulations to the Celtic Bhoy’s Trio on being called up to the Japan International Squad. I am sure that they will continue to impress!