July 21st sees the second game under the banner “Team As One” – the J.League actually calling the game “Special Match”. The game will raise funds for the continuing efforts to rehabilitate Tohoku after last year’s tragic earthquake and tsunami. The Team As One selection will consist of players from the two J1 clubs most affected by the tragedy – Kashima Antlers and Vegalta Sendai, augmented by some players from the Tohoku region like Vissel Kobe’s Hiroto Mogi, who hails from Fukushima.

J.League Team as One selection:

GKs – Takuto Hayashi, Hitoshi Sogahata
DFs – Toru Araiba, Daiki Iwamasa, Makoto Kakuda, Yasuyuki Konno, Daigo Nishi, Kodai Watanabe,
MFs – Ryang Yong-gi, Kunimitsu Sekiguchi, Naoki Sugai, Koji Nakata, Yasushi Endo, Masashi Motoyama, Gaku Shibasaki, Mitsuo Ogasawara, Yojiro Takahagi
FWs – Atsushi Yanagisawa, Shingo Akamine, Yuya Osako, Shinzo Koroki, Hiroto Mogi

The J.League selection contains some respected names of Japanese football in Masashi “Gon” Nakayama, Shunsuke Nakamura and Yasuhito Endo, as well as some representatives from the younger end of the spectrum in Genki Haraguchi and Junya Tanaka, plus J1 top scorer Hisashi Sato.

J.League Selection:

GKs – Masaaki Higashiguchi, Seigo Narazaki
DFs – Wataru Hashimoto, Yuichi Komano, Yuzo Kurihara, Tomoaki Makino, Yuji Nakazawa, Hayuma Tanaka, Tulio,
MFs – Carlinhos, Leandro Domingues, Yasuhito Endo, Yoichiro Kakitani, Yosuke Kashiwagi, Kengo Nakamura, Shunsuke Nakamura, Shinji Ono, Hideto Takahashi
FWs – Genki Haraguchi, Ryoichi Maeda, Masashi Nakayama, Hisato Sato, Junya Tanaka, Yohei Toyoda

The game is Saturday, July 21st, at Kashima Stadium, kick off at 19.00.