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Substitute Maika Hamano hit a brace as Japan came from behind to hammer New Zealand 4-1 in a women’s football international friendly on Monday. Following a comfortable 2-0 win on Friday in the first of their two-match series in Murcia, Spain, Nadeshiko Japan were handed a trickier test this time around but responded well in the second half of their final game before the 18-member Paris Olympics squad is announced. Seventh-ranked Japan went behind in the 22nd minute when Milly Clegg beat Hana Takahashi down the left and blasted high into the net for 28th-ranked New Zealand. Twenty-year-old Hama…

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