The soccer competition in Brazil is immense, Brazilian talent is enough to make up more than one national team since there are thousands of Brazilian professional soccer players around the world and many of them could easily be eligible to represent other nations.
In the case of the Asian environment, many Brazilians have migrated to Eastern football to provide talent for that part of the world and have chosen to defend the shirt of an Asian country and in the following list we mention five Brazilian players who have chosen to represent to a country in Asia.
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He arrived in Japan in 1977, and until 1998 he played in the Yomiuri Club and the Kawasaki Verdy, among other teams. In 1989 he obtained Japanese nationality, which allowed him to be part of the Japanese national team as one of the outstanding players during the first half of the 1990s, there he played 32 games and scored one goal. His debut was on September 26, 1990 in the Asian Games against Bangladesh.
After participating in the 1990 Asian Games, in 1992 he led the first Japanese team with professionals that won the 1992 Asian Cup.
Ramos He never played in a World Cup. In 1995 he retired from the national team, so he was not part of the team that qualified for the 1998 World Cup.
Wagner Lopes (currently a coach), was
born in Brazil, but obtained Japanese nationality in 1997 and was able to participate with the Japanese team in the 1998 World Cup in France.
The one born in Paraná was international with the Japan national team, playing 82 international matches and scoring seven goals. In addition, he participated in two World Cups, 2002 and 2006. He played as a midfielder and played almost his entire career in Japan, in 2007 he had a step in Europe, in the Red Bull Salzburg from Austria.
The defender had a Japanese father and was born in Sao Paulo. He participated in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, playing the four complete games as a pillar in the team's defense. His play was a great contribution to the team's passage to the round of 16. He was part of the senior Japanese team between 2006 and 2010.
The one born in Coelho Neto, Brazil, plays as a midfielder or forward for the Chengdu Rongcheng of the Chinese Super League. After several years in Chinese football he accepted the proposal to be international with the Chinese national team.
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