Aya Miyama

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Aya Miyama
Aya Miyama in 2011.jpg
Aya Miyama, World Cup 2011
Personnel
birthday January 28, 1985
place of birth Chiba Prefecture ,  Japan
size 157 cm
position midfield
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2000 Nippon TV Beleza 6 0(2)
2001-2008 Okayama Yunogō Belle 110 (62)
2009 Los Angeles Sol 20 0(0)
Okayama Yunogō Belle 6 0(1)
2010 Saint Louis Athletica 5 0(1)
Atlanta beat 17 0(1)
2010– Okayama Yunogō Belle 7 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2003– Japan 162 (38)
1 Only league games are given.

2 As of March 9, 2016

Aya Miyama ( Japanese 宮 間 あ や , Miyama Aya ; born January 28, 1985 in Ōamishirasato , Sambu County , Chiba Prefecture ) is a Japanese soccer player . The midfielder has been playing for the Japanese L. League club Okayama Yunogo Belle since January 2011 . She has been the Japanese national player since 2003 and is currently the captain of the national team.

Career

In the club

Aya Miyama (left) with Kelly Smith of the Boston Breakers

Aya Miyama played for Yomiuri Menina (now NTV Menina ), the youth club of NTV Beleza , into which she was taken over in 1999 , until 1999 . For school reasons, she left the club in 2000 and played for a while in the football club of her school.

In January 2001, Miyama accepted an invitation from the former Japanese national player and coach Midori Honda and joined the newly founded club Okayama Yunogō Belle in Mimasaka , Okayama Prefecture . There she played until December 2008 and scored 62 goals in 110 games.

In the first season of the US women's soccer league Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) in 2009 played Miyama for the team Los Angeles Sol . However, the association was dissolved in early 2010 for financial reasons.

After Los Angeles Sol was dissolved, Miyama was acquired by Saint Louis Athletica in January 2010 . However, this club also stopped playing on May 27, 2010 for financial reasons. All players were released on June 1, 2010. On June 10, 2010, Aya Miyama signed as a free agent for the Atlanta Beat club .

Since January 2011, Aya Miyama has been playing again with the number 10 for Okayama Yunogō Belle .

In the national team

Aya Miyama was inducted into the Japanese national team in 2003.

On March 19, 2003, she made her debut as a national player in an international friendly match against Thailand, her first goal she scored on June 9, 2003 against the Philippines in the 14th Asia Women Football Competition.

She participated in the 2003 World Cup , World Cup 2007 , the 2008 Summer Olympic Games and the Asian Games in 2010 in part. At the 2011 World Cup , she scored the winning goal in the first group game against New Zealand and the 1-1 equalizer in the final against the USA. Japan won the world title with a 3-1 penalty shoot-out, with Miyama converting the first penalty.

Miyama was part of the Japanese squad for the London Olympics as captain . She was in the starting line-up in all six games, u. a. in the final, lost 1: 2 against the USA , and won the silver medal with their team.

In May 2014 she and her team won the Asian Cup for the first time by beating defending champions Australia 1-0 and was named the best player of the tournament.

She was also nominated for the 2015 World Cup and used in all seven games, not missing a minute. In the first group game against Switzerland , she scored the first tournament goal for Japan with a converted penalty and was named "Player of the Game". Even after the games against Cameroon and Ecuador , she received this award. She was also not spared in the game against Ecuador, when coach Norio Sasaki spared some regular players. In the semi-final against England , she scored the 1-0 - again with a penalty - which the English were able to equalize seven minutes later - also with a penalty. An own goal by Englishwoman Laura Bassett in added time allowed Japan to reach the final. In the final against the USA, their team conceded four goals within the first 16 minutes. Miyama was only able to give the game a few impulses at first. Her teammate Yūki Ōgimi was then able to reduce it to 1: 4 and after a free kick she struck into the US penalty area, the US girls underwent an own goal to 2: 4. But two minutes later the 2: 5 fell and the other Japanese attack efforts were unsuccessful. Even before the final, she was nominated for the prize of the best player, along with her team-mate Saori Ariyoshi and six other players. Ultimately, she received the "Bronze Ball" as the third best player. Miyama also took third place behind Carli Lloyd (USA) and Célia Šašić (Germany) in the 2015 World Player of the Year .

At the qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympic Games in Osaka , however, she and her team failed to Australia and China , so that Japan could not qualify for the Olympic Games.

With 162 internationals, she is the second most popular player in the national team after Homare Sawa .

successes

Awards

  • Appointment to the team of the 2011 World Cup
  • Asia's Player of the Year 2011, 2012, 2015
  • Bronze Ball as the third best player in the 2015 World Cup
  • Inclusion in the 2015 world selection as the only Asian player

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chiba Prefecture, December 20, 2010: Recipient of the “Governor's Prize” ( kenchijishō )  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 83 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.pref.chiba.lg.jp  
  2. ^ Los Angeles Sol of Women's Professional Soccer to cease operations , LA Times . January 28, 2010. 
  3. ^ Saint Louis Athletica to Shut Down , Women's Professional Soccer . May 27, 2010. Archived from the original on June 3, 2010. 
  4. ↑ the-afc.com: "Marvelous Miyama bags 'MVP' award"
  5. ↑ fifa.com: "FIFA names candidates for awards at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup ™"
  6. ↑ http://www.fifa.com/ballon-dor/news/y=2016/m=1/news=messi-lloyd-luis-enrique-and-ellis-triumph-at-fifa-ballon-d-or -2015-2754944.html
  7. ↑ FIFA.com: Honor for Miyama - Canada won ( Memento of December 5, 2011 on the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ fr-online.de: "Anja Mittag and Celia Sasic in the 2015 soccer world selection"
personal data
SURNAME Miyama, Aya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 宮 間 あ や (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese female soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Ōamishirasato , Chiba Prefecture