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Hattori emerges as true leader Jeremy Walker Special to The Daily Yomiuri Yomiuri While South Korea's recently-installed Dutch head coach, Guus Hiddink, has had no trouble identifying a natural leader for the 2002 World Cup, his opposite number in Japan is still searching for a captain...after 31 months at the helm. Hiddink's choice is the elegant and dynamic Kashiwa Reysol defender Hong Myung Bo, already a veteran of three World Cup campaigns. But Philippe Troussier is way behind on this one, and as his team prepares to face Spain in Cordoba on Wednesday night, it's anyone's guess who will be wearing the captain's armband when the nations march into battle. The Frenchman has never put too much importance on the role of captain, a point he made perfectly clear in his first official press conference in Japan in September 1998. When asked if he would be sticking with Japan's skipper at the World Cup in France, Masami Ihara, Troussier dismissed the question and also played down the significance of a captain within a team. Even now, with just over a year to go to the next World Cup, and with …