Masaaki Higashiguchi

Masaaki Higashiguchi
Masaaki Higashiguchi (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Japanese. 東 口 順 昭 , Higashiguchi Masaaki
birthday	May 12, 1986
place of birth	Osaka Prefecture ,  Japan
size	184 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	Hiyoshida Wings SC
	FC Owls Inter. Hirono
	Gamba Osaka
	Rakunan High School
	Fukui Uni. of Technology
	Niigata Uni. of management
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2014	Albirex Niigata	84 (0)
2014–	Gamba Osaka	195 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2015–	Japan	8 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 5, 2019 2 As of October 5, 2019

Masaaki Higashiguchi ( Japanese 東 口 順 昭 , Higashiguchi Masaaki ; born May 12, 1986 in Osaka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese football player in the position of goalkeeper .

Career

Masaaki Higashiguchi (nickname: Higashi) started playing football at FC OWLS Inter. Hirono. He then played with several youth teams, including the youth team of Gamba Osaka at the Rakunan High School in Kyoto and at the Technical University of Fukui . At the Universiade 2008 Higashi was awarded the MVP Award, whereupon both his former club Gamba Osaka and the club Albirex became aware of him and wanted to sign him. Higashi joined Albirex in 2009.

He made his debut in the J. League when he came on on March 13, 2010 in the game against Júbilo Iwata in the 75 minutes for Takaya Kurokawa . After 3 years and 10 months in Niigata, Higashi switched to Gamba Osaka on January 1, 2014, to his former youth club. He played his first game on March 1, 2014 against Urawa Red Diamonds .

successes

Gamba Osaka

• Japanese champion 2014
• J. League Cup 2014
• Imperial Cup 2014

Web links

• Player profile at Albirex Niigata
• Masaaki Higashiguchi in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Masaaki Higashiguchi in the soccerway.com database
• Masaaki Higashiguchi in the database of fussballzz.de