Kunishige Kamamoto

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Kunishige Kamamoto
Kunishige Kamamoto IMG 3322 20140110.JPG
Personnel
birthday April 15, 1944
place of birth Kyoto ,  Japan
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Yamashiro High School
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1963-1967 Waseda University
1967-1984 Yanmar Diesel 251 (202)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1964-1974 Japan 76 0(75)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1984-1991 Yanmar Diesel
1991-1992 Matsushita Electric Industrial
1992-1995 Gamba Osaka
2009 Fujieda My FC
1 Only league games are given.

Kunishige Kamamoto ( Jap. 釜本邦茂 , Kamamoto Kunishige * 15 April 1944 in Kyoto ) is a former Japanese football player and coach and current functionaries and politicians .

Career

As a player

Kamamoto began playing soccer in the fourth grade of elementary school and continued to play football even after he moved to the Yamashiro High School in Kyōto Prefecture ( Kyōto-furitsu Yamashiro kōtō gakkō ). From 1963 to 1966 Kamamoto studied at Waseda University and was top scorer in the Kanto University League four times in a row. 1967 joined the striker Yanmar Diesel , for whom he scored 202 goals in 251 games in the Japan Soccer League by 1984 .

As a trainer

From 1978 to 1984, Kamamoto Yanmar Diesel coached as a player- coach and then as a coach. In 1991 he took the training at local rivals Matsushita Electric Industrial and supervised the team that after the establishment of the J. League in Gamba Osaka had renamed until 1995. It was not until 2009, he went back to coaching positions and that when the unterklassigen Fujieda My FC , the Japanese myfootballclub counterpart to the English Ebbsfleet United .

As a functionary and politician

Kamamoto was elected in 1995 for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) through the national proportional representation in the Sangiin , the upper house of the Japanese parliament. Within the LDP, he joined the Mitsuzuka / Mori faction . In 1998 he was appointed vice president of the Japanese Football Association ( Nihon Soccer Kyōkai , English Japan Football Association ). Yoshirō Mori appointed him in 2000 as State Secretary ( fuku-daijin , "Vice Minister") in the Ministry of Social Affairs in his second cabinet . In the 2001 Sangiin election , he received just under 60,000 of the newly introduced preferential votes nationwide and lost his mandate. In 2002, Kamamoto was a member of the board of the organizing committee for the World Cup .

National team

In 1962 and 1963 Kamamoto took part in the U-19 Asian Football Championship with Japan . Between 1964 and 1974 he played a total of 61 international matches for the Japanese national soccer team , in which he scored 55 goals. Together with Kazuyoshi Miura, he is the best Japanese goalscorer. Kamamoto participated with Japan's team in the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games . At the 1968 Olympic Games, Japan won the bronze medal and Kamamoto was the top scorer in this tournament with seven goals. In 1966, 1970 and 1974 he competed with Japan at the Asian Games .

Further successes and honors

  • Japanese football champions: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1980
  • Japanese Cup Winner: 1983, 1984
  • Japanese Footballer of the Year: 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1981
  • Japan Soccer League top scorer : 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978
  • 14 appointments to the Japanese team of the season
  • 5th place in Asia's Player of the Century election
  • Induction into the Japan Football Hall of Fame in 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JANJAN, The Senkyo: Sangiin election 2001, proportional representation LDP ( Memento of December 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kamamoto, Kunishige
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 釜 本 邦 茂 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player and coach, official and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto