Ryotaro Meshino

Ryotaro Meshino
Personnel
birthday	June 18, 1998
place of birth	Izumisano , Osaka Prefecture ,  Japan
size	171 cm
position	Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Joinus FC Osaka
	Andrews FC Osaka
0000–2018	Gamba Osaka
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
0000–2019	Gamba Osaka U23	at least 23 (13)
2018-2019	Gamba Osaka	23 0(3)
2019–	Manchester City	0 0(0)
2019-2020	→  Heart of Midlothian  (loan)	19 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2020–	Japan U23	2 (1)
1 Only league games are given. As of June 4, 2020 2 As of January 12, 2020

Ryōtarō Meshino ( Japanese 食野 亮 太郎 , Meshino Ryōtarō ; born June 18, 1998 in Izumisano , Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese football player . He has been under contract with Manchester City since August 2019 .

Career

society

Ryōtarō Meshino began his career with smaller clubs in Osaka. Most recently he was in the youth of Gamba Osaka until 2018 . At the age of 17 he received his first professional contract. For the U23 team of the club he was active in the J3 League , the third highest soccer league in Japan. In 2018, Meshino also made his first-team debut in the J1 League . In the following year and a half he came to his missions for both teams.

In August 2019, the English club Manchester City signed him . The 21-year-old playmaker was loaned out to Heart of Midlothian immediately after joining Scotland . He was the first Japanese in the 145-year history of the Hearts club.

National team

With the Japanese U-23 national team , Meshino took part in the Asian Championship for this age group in Thailand in 2020 .

Web links

• Ryōtarō Meshino in the soccerway.com database
• Ryōtarō Meshino in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ryōtarō Meshino in the database of soccerbase.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ryotaro Meshino. Heart of Midlothian, accessed November 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Ryotaro Meshino: Hearts sign Manchester City midfielder on loan. BBC Sport, August 30, 2019, accessed November 25, 2019 .