Summary
GOALKEEPER Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi was left ruing his team's loss of concentration in the final 10 minutes as Japan threw away a one- goal lead to lose their World Cup opener against Australia 3-1 in Kaiserslautern.
Kawaguchi looked like being the hero for Japan with a string of fine saves that kept the Australians at bay both before and after Shunsuke Nakamura gave the Zico-coached team the lead with a bizarre goal 26 minutes into the game.See the full content of this document
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Cahill Secures Historic Win to Leave Japanese Dejected ; World Cup Germany 2006 Australia 3 Japan 1
But a misjudgement by the former Portsmouth goalkeeper saw Lucas Neill's 84th-minute throw-in make its way across the Japanese penalty...
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