Masahiro Koga

Masahiro Koga
Personnel
birthday	September 8, 1978
place of birth	Ōkawa ,  Japan
size	185 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1986-1990	Ōkawa Sports Shōnendan
1991-1993	Ōkawa Middle School
1994-1996	Fukuoka East High School
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-2006	Nagoya Grampus Eight	231 (15)
2007-2010	Kashiwa Reysol	95 0(8)
2010-2011	Júbilo Iwata	19 0(0)
2012-2015	Avispa Fukuoka	74 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1995	Japan U-17
1997	Japan U-20
2000	Japan U-23
1 Only league games are given. As of September 14, 2015

Masahiro Koga ( Japanese 古 賀 正 紘 , Koga Masahiro ; born September 8, 1978 in Ōkawa ) is a Japanese football player .

career

Masahiro Koga began playing football during elementary school where he played for the Ōkawa Sports Shōnendan club, then in the Ōkawa Middle School team and then moved to the Fukuoka East High School (Higashi-Fukuoka), which has produced a large number of professional footballers. After graduating from school, he was signed by first division club Nagoya Grampus Eight in 1997 , where he stayed until 2006. In 2007 he moved to Kashiwa Reysol , 2010 to Júbilo Iwata and 2012 to the second division Avispa Fukuoka where he played until 2015.

With the U-17 youth team , he qualified for the 1995 World Junior Cup and with the U-20 team for the 1997 World Junior Cup , where he scored one or two goals. He was also a member of the U-23 Olympic selection for the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney , where he was used in seven games.

Titles earned

• Imperial Cup : 1999
• J. League Cup : 2010

Web links

• Masahiro Koga in the database of FIFA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} DF 5 古 賀 正 紘 . Avispa Fukuoka, archived from the original on July 13, 2015 ; Retrieved February 13, 2016 (Japanese).