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Nadeshiko Japan overpowered Ghana’s short-handed Black Queens 4-0 in the hosts’ final domestic warm-up ahead of the Paris Olympics women’s football tournament. Japan, ranked seventh in the world, broke the deadlock shortly after the break at Kanazawa’s Go Go Curry Stadium in central Japan through striker Mina Tanaka. The flood gates opened after the hour on goals by Maika Hamano, Aoba Fujino and Riko Ueki. Tanaka received Fujino’s back-heel through pass and slotted past keeper Cynthia Fiindib Konlan, who had almost single-handedly kept 65th-ranked Ghana in the game until that point. Ghana capt…

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