Yahiro Kazama

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Yahiro Kazama
Personal information
Full nameYahiro Kazama
Date of birth (1961-10-16) October 16, 1961 (age 62)
Place of birthShizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing positionMidfielder
Youth career
1977–1979Shimizu Commercial High School
1980–1983University of Tsukuba
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1984–1985Bayer Leverkusen
1985–1988Remscheid
1988–1989Eintracht Braunschweig15(0)
1989–1995Sanfrecce Hiroshima166(13)
1996–1997Remscheid
National team
1979Japan U-203(0)
1980–1983Japan19(0)
Teams managed
2012–2016Kawasaki Frontale
2017–2019Nagoya Grampus
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Biography

Kazama was born in Shizuoka on October 16, 1961. After graduating from University of Tsukuba, he moved to Germany in 1984. He played for several clubs, Bayer Leverkusen Remscheid and Eintracht Braunschweig. In 1989, he returned to Japan and joined Japan Soccer League Division 2 club Mazda (later Sanfrecce Hiroshima). The club was promoted to Division 1 in 1991. In 1992, Japan Soccer League was folded and founded new league J1 League. J1 League first season in 1993, he played opening match and scored a goal. This is the first goal by Japanese player in J1 League. He left Sanfrecce Hiroshima end of 1995 season and moved to Germany club Remscheid again. He retired in 1997.

In August 1979, when Kazama was a Shimizu Commercial High School student, he was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 1979 World Youth Championship and he played 3 games. In December 1980, when he was a University of Tsukuba student, he was selected the Japan national team for 1982 World Cup qualification. At this qualification, on December 22, he debuted against Singapore. He also played at 1982 Asian Games and 1984 Summer Olympics qualification. He played 19 games for Japan until 1983. After he moved to Germany in 1984, he was not selected Japan.

After the retirement, Kazama managed Toin University of Yokohama (1998–2003) and University of Tsukuba (2008–2012). In April 2012, he signed with J1 League club Kawasaki Frontale as Naoki Soma successor. The club won the 3rd place in 2013 and 2016. In 2017, he moved to J2 League club Nagoya Grampus which was relegated to J2 from 2017. The club won the 3rd place in 2017 and was promoted to J1. He was sacked in September 2019.

Statistics

[1][2]

Club performance League CupLeague CupTotal
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
JapanLeague Emperor's Cup J. League CupTotal
1989/90 Mazda JSL Division 2 27 3 1 0 28 3
1990/91 21 4 3 0 24 4
1991/92 JSL Division 1 15 0 4 0 19 0
1992 Sanfrecce Hiroshima J1 League - 2 0 6 0 8 0
1993 35 6 4 0 0 0 39 6
1994 43 0 3 0 1 0 47 0
1995 25 0 1 0 - 26 0
Country Japan 166 13 10 0 15 0 191 10
Total 166 13 10 0 15 0 191 10

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Japan national team
YearAppsGoals
1980 4 0
1981 8 0
1982 4 0
1983 3 0
Total 19 0

References

  1. Yahiro Kazama at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. Yahiro Kazama at J.League (in Japanese)
  3. Japan National Football Team Database

Other websites

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