Akira Nishino (soccer player)

Akira Nishino
Akira Nishino at the 2018 World Cup
Personnel
birthday	April 7, 1955
place of birth	Urawa , Saitama ,  Japan
size	182 cm
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1978-1990	Hitachi
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1977-1988	Japan	12 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1991-1992	Japan U-20
1994-1996	Japan U-23
1998-2001	Kashiwa Reysol
2002-2011	Gamba Osaka
2012	Vissel Kobe
2014-2015	Nagoya Grampus
2018	Japan
2019–	Thailand
1 Only league games are given.

Akira Nishino ( Japanese 西 野 朗 Nishino Akira ; born April 7, 1955 in Urawa (today: Saitama District ), Saitama Prefecture ) is a former Japanese football player and current coach.

Career

In 1977 Nishino made his debut for the Japanese national soccer team . Nishino made twelve international appearances, scoring one goal. From 1978 to 1990 he played for the Hitachi factory team (today: Kashiwa Reysol ).

He then switched to the coaching career where he first managed the U-20 and U-23 national teams and then from 1998 to 2001 his hometown club Kashiwa Reysol, with which he won the J. League Cup in 1999. He then spent 10 years with Gamba Osaka , with whom he was able to win the Cup again in 2007 and the Imperial Cup in 2008 and 2009, table first in 2005 and Asian champion in 2008, until he moved to Vissel Kobe in 2012 and to Nagoya Grampus the following year .

From April to July 2018, Nishino coached the Japanese national team and took over the position of Bosnian coach Vahid Halilhodzic .

Titles earned (coach)

• J. League : 2005
• Imperial Cup : 2008, 2009
• J. League Cup : 1999, 2007
• AFC Champions League : 2008

Web links

• Akira Nishino in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Akira Nishino in the jfootball-db.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ japantimes.co.jp: Akira Nishino reflects on Japan's wild World Cup ride (Aug. 29, 2018) , accessed October 11, 2019.