Masahiro Yanagida

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Masahiro Yanagida
portrait
Date of birth July 6, 1992
place of birth Tokyo, Japan
size 1.86 m
position External attack
societies
2011–2014
2014–2017
2017–2018
2018–2019
since 2019 		Keiō University
Suntory Sunbirds
Volleyball Bisons Bühl
Cuprum Lubin
United Volleys Frankfurt
National team
since 2013 A national team
successes
2015, 2017
2018
2018 		Asian champion
DVV cup finalist
World Cup participant

As of October 15, 2019

Masahiro Yanagida ( Japanese 柳 田 将 洋 , Yanagida Masahiro ; born July 6, 1992 in Edogawa , Tokyo ) is a Japanese volleyball player .

Career

Yanagida started playing volleyball at the age of seven. After graduating from Tōyō High School in Chiyoda , he began studying at Keiō University in 2011 . In 2013, the outside attacker made his debut for the Japanese national team . In 2014 he moved to Osaka for the first division club Suntory Sunbirds. With the national team he was sixth at the World Cup . In the same year he was Asian champion . In 2017 he played with Japan in the world league and was again Asian champion. He was then the first Japanese player to be signed by the German Bundesliga club Volleyball Bisons Bühl . With the club he reached the DVV Cup final before Bühl was eliminated as eighth in the quarter-finals of the Bundesliga playoffs . With Japan he took part in the Nations League 2018 . At the World Cup , the team retired after the first group stage in the same year. Then Yanagida moved to the Polish first division club Cuprum Lubin . In 2019 he was signed by the Bundesliga club United Volleys Frankfurt . He played with Japan at the 2019 World Cup .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 13 柳 田 将 洋 . V League, archived from the original on September 25, 2015 ; Retrieved December 3, 2017 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Profile at the Suntory Sunbirds. Suntory Sunbirds, archived from the original on October 18, 2015 ; Retrieved October 15, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ a b Profile at Amuse (Japanese)
  4. ↑ a b Japan's national player Masahiro Yanagida signs first professional player contract with TV Ingersoll Bühl. TV Bühl, June 21, 2017, accessed on November 14, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b Profile at FIVB (English)
  6. ↑ a b Profile at the United Volleys Frankfurt
  7. ↑ FIVB profile 2018 (English)
  8. ↑ Profile at the Plusliga (Polish)
  9. ↑ The "Japanese Beckham" comes to Frankfurt. United Volleys, May 29, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Yanagida, Masahiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 柳 田 将 洋 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese volleyball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Edogawa , Tokyo , Japan