After failing to qualify for the 2016 Olympic tournament, Japan brought in a new coach. Her brief appeared to be to help bring on the next generation for the World Cup and Tokyo 2020 Olympics and so a number of 'veterans' were axed from the squad. One of the most notable being Nahomi Kawasumi. Well, after the Algarve Cup performance coach Takakura has come to the conclusion that there aren't enough talented youngsters available for Japan and Naho (who has had an excellent couple of years in NWSL) has now been recalled for the Asian Cup in April (which acts as qualifying for next years World Cup).
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England have moved ahead of Germany in the updated world rankings, now up to second behind USA.
01 USA
02 England ↑
03 Germany ↓
04 Canada ↑
05 France ↑
06 Australia ↓
07 Netherlands
08 Brazil
09 Sweden ↑
10 North Korea ↑
11 Japan ↓
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