The pair are in the Japan squad that will compete at the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup in Australia, which runs from March 1 to March 21.<\/p>\n
Japan kick off their schedule against Chinese Taipei in Perth on Wednesday (March 4) and will also face India and Vietnam in their group.<\/p>\n
As a result, Nagano and Shimizu are set to be absent for the Reds\u2019 Barclays Women\u2019s Super League fixtures against Leicester City and Brighton & Hove Albion.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course it will be sad to be missing for my club, but for Japan the Asian Cup is a very important competition,\u201d said Nagano.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to show our quality and that we are the strongest team in Asia and win this competition. It is still summer in Australia so it might be a bit warmer than it has been here recently, so I can\u2019t wait to experience the warmer weather again!\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI\u2019m excited for this tournament and I want to give it everything and enjoy the competition as much as I can.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be a special moment if we lift up the trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pair are in the Japan squad that will compete at the AFC Women\u2019s Asian Cup in Australia,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-796592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116153211194222520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}