Samurai Blue players speak ahead of their opener against Germany

Japan and Germany will go head to head on Thursday November 24 12:00am AEDT. Listen to Hiroki Sakai, playing his third consecutive world cup, and Takumi Minamino and Daichi Kamada who are both making their world cup debut.

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