Longtime captain Saki Kumagai and star playmaker Yui Hasegawa were named Friday among the 18 members of the Japanese women's football squad aiming to return to the podium at the Paris Olympics kicking off next month.Head coach Futoshi Ikeda's team will bid for Japan's first Olympic football medal since taking women's silver at the 2012 London Games.Roma's Kumagai and Manchester City's Hasegawa are joined by several other mainstays of the Nadeshiko Japan outfit who reached the 2023 Women's World Cup quarterfinals in New Zealand and Australia.They include the tournament's top goal scorer, Man…READ FULL ARTICLE
