Maya Yoshida

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Maya Yoshida
Maya Yoshida.jpg
Maya Yoshida at the 2018 World Cup
Personnel
birthday August 24, 1988
place of birth Nagasaki Prefecture ,  Japan
size 187 cm
position Central defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2009 Nagoya Grampus 71 (5)
2010–2012 VVV-Venlo 54 (5)
2012– Southampton FC 154 (6)
2020– →  Sampdoria Genoa  (loan) 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010– Japan 100 (11)
2008, 2012 Japan (Olympia) 7 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 13, 2020

2 As of November 14, 2019

Maya Yoshida ( Japanese 吉田 麻 也 , Yoshida Maya ; born August 24, 1988 in Nagasaki Prefecture ) is a Japanese football player . He holds the position of central defender . In 2011 he won the Asian Cup with the Japanese national team .

Club career

Yoshida went through the youth department of the Japanese first division club Nagoya Grampus . In December 2009 he ventured to Europe and moved to VVV-Venlo in the Netherlands .

On August 30, 2012, he signed a three-year contract with Premier League participants Southampton FC . He made his debut for the Saints on September 15, 2012 when he came on for Jos Hooiveld in the game against Arsenal in the 28th minute . In January 2015 he extended his contract to 2018.

National team

In 2008 and 2012 as captain, Yoshida was in the squad for the Olympic Games and was used in a total of seven games. In the game for third place, the team lost 2-0 to South Korea in 2012 .

For the Japanese national team , he played his first international matches from 2010. His debut took place on January 6, 2010 against Yemen as part of the qualification for the 2011 Asian Cup and around a year later he played all three group games in the final round , as well as the quarter-finals and the successful final against Australia (1-0 aet) .) - a yellow-red card from the quarter-finals prevented an additional bet in the semi-finals.

The next high points in his national team career were his participation in the Confederations Cup in 2013 (he remained without points in three group matches), the following year his three appearances at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil (there, too, Japan ended after the preliminary round) and At the beginning of 2015 the new appearance at the Asian Championships . There they failed to defend their title after the quarter-final against the United Arab Emirates on penalties - but Yoshida was not one of the shooters.

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Web links

Commons : Maya Yoshida  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual references / footnotes

  1. ↑ "Eljero Elia: Balotelli comparison is unfair - Southampton's Koeman" (BBC Sport)
personal data
SURNAME Yoshida, Maya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 吉田 麻 也 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagasaki Prefecture , Japan