Eiji Kawashima
| Eiji Kawashima | ||
 Eiji Kawashima at the 2018 World Cup
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | March 20, 1983 | |
| place of birth | Yono , Japan | |
| size | 185 cm | |
| position | goal | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1998-2000 | Urawa Higashi High School | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2001-2003 | Ōmiya Ardija | 41 (0) |
| 2004-2006 | Nagoya Grampus | 17 (0) |
| 2007-2010 | Kawasaki Frontale | 102 (0) |
| 2010–2012 | Lierse SK | 64 (0) |
| 2012-2015 | Standard Liege | 151 (0) |
| 2015-2016 | Dundee United | 16 (0) |
| 2016-2018 | FC Metz | 35 (0) |
| 2018– | Racing Strasbourg | 1 (0) |
| 2018– | Racing Strasbourg B | 5 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2002-2003 | Japan U-20 | 13 (0) |
| 2008– | Japan | 91 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of October 5, 2019 2 As of November 19, 2019 |
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Eiji Kawashima ( Japanese 川島 永 嗣 Kawashima Eiji ; born March 20, 1983 in Yono (today: Saitama ), Saitama Prefecture ) is a Japanese football goalkeeper and a member of the Japanese national football team . He currently plays for the French first division team Racing Strasbourg . Since 2007, Kawashima was one of the four vice-presidents of the J-League players' association ( J リ ー グ 選手 協会 , jei rīgu senshu kyōkai ).
Career
Kawashima played for Urawa Higashi High School in his youth . After graduating from school, he signed with Ōmiya Ardija in 2001 . The following year he aroused the interest of AC Parma during a tour of Italy , but the Japanese rejected the advances of the Serie A club.
At the 2003 FIFA U-20 World Cup, he made a name for himself as a reflexive goalkeeper with good positional play, which made a significant contribution to his team's quarter-finals. This earned him the commitment to Nagoya Grampus . There he took up the competition with Seigō Narazaki for number one goal of the team. It was a fight that he would lose in the end, but he was able to successfully distinguish himself as a brave and ambitious challenger. Dissatisfied with his role as substitute goalkeeper for Narazaki, he finally moved to Kawasaki Frontale in 2007 , where he was regularly used in both the J.League and the AFC Champions League and soon became a national player in the Japanese national soccer team, for which he was on Debuted February 17, 2008 in the game against North Korea, established.
From national coach Takeshi Okada Kawashima was nominated next to Seigō Narazaki and Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi for the Soccer World Cup 2010 in South Africa . In the test match against England on May 30, 2010 in Graz , preference was given to him over the other two, much more experienced goalkeepers. In the game he distinguished himself with a saved penalty, shot by Frank Lampard . During the World Cup, he was finally used as a goalkeeper in all games in Japan.
After the 2010 World Cup, he moved to Europe for the Jupiler Pro League club Lierse SK .
In December 2015, he signed a contract with Dundee United .
On January 29, 2011 he won the Asian Football Championship as a regular goalkeeper with the Japanese national team . In the final against Australia (1-0 aet) he distinguished himself several times with strong saves that ensured victory for Japan . In the semifinals against South Korea (3: 0 on penalties ) he had also shone when he saved twice on penalties .
Awards
- J. League Best Eleven - 2009
- J. League Fair Play Award - 2009
successes
- French league cup winner : 2019
Web links
- Eiji Kawashima in the database of weltfussball.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samurai Blue: Fan Zone
- ↑ J リ ー グ 選手 協会 : 役 員 ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nomination for the 2010 World Cup (Japan Times)
- ↑ Suponichi : Photo incl. Description: イ ン グ ラ ン ド の ラ ン パ ー ド の ＰＫ を 止 め 、 雄 た け び を 上 げ る ＧＫ 川島 永 嗣 ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BBC Sport: Eiji Kawashima: Dundee United secure goalkeeper signing
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kawashima, Eiji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 川島 永 嗣 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese soccer goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yono , Saitama Prefecture , Japan |