Liverpool's Takumi Minamino and Villarreal's Takefusa Kubo were among the 25 members named in Japan's national squad that will play in their upcoming friendlies in the Netherlands, the Japan Football Association announced Thursday.Japan face Cameroon on Oct. 9 and the Ivory Coast on Oct. 13 at Stadion Galgenwaard in Utrecht. The Samurai Blue will be playing their first matches of the year following a string of postponements and cancelations caused by the coronavirus pandemic."We haven't been active for almost a year, so I want to reaffirm the fundamentals and unify our intentions," Japan ma…READ FULL ARTICLE