TOKYO -- Peer Naubert is eager to discuss the growing relationship between Germany's top professional soccer league and Japan, which since the early 1960s has sought to emulate the German model at the amateur and professional levels.
Both goals in Samurai Blue's 2-1 World Cup win came from Germany-based players
SC Freiburg and Japan national team winger Ritsu Doan races away from Bayern Munich's Raphael Guerreiro in a Bundesliga match at Europa Park Stadion, Freiburg, Germany, on March 1. © Reuters
TOKYO -- Peer Naubert is eager to discuss the growing relationship between Germany's top professional soccer league and Japan, which since the early 1960s has sought to emulate the German model at the amateur and professional levels.