International football returns to Japan in rout of South Korea

Goals by Miki Yamane, Daichi Kamada and Wataru Endo lifted Japan to a 3-0 international friendly win over South Korea on Thursday at Yokohama's Nissan Stadium, the first international match played in Japan since November 2019.Yuya Osako did not get on the scoresheet in the Samurai Blue's first match of the year and first in Japan since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.Japan, ranked 27th in the world, last played 38th-ranked South Korea in December 2019, but it was the first friendly between the fierce East Asian rivals in 10 years. The game was played before 8,356 socially distanced fa…READ FULL ARTICLE