Japan Football Association president Saburo Kawabuchi said Sunday he has no objections to a reported plan to play Japan's upcoming World Cup qualifier against North Korea in Bangkok.
"It doesn't matter where it's going to be played and we (the JFA) have no reason to oppose it," Kawabuchi said, referring to a report that soccer's world governing body FIFA has asked Thai soccer officials whether they would be willing to host the June 8 match.
FIFA ordered North Korea to play the match in a third country behind closed doors as punishment for crowd trouble that erupted after North Korea lost 2-0 to Iran in Pyongyang on March 30.