Shinji Kagawa

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Shinji Kagawa
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Shinji Kagawa (2018)
Personnel
birthday March 17, 1989
place of birth Kobe , Hyogo Prefecture ,  Japan
size 175 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
1994-1999 Marino FC Club
1999-2001 Kobe NK Soccer Club
2001-2005 FC Miyagi Barcelona
2006 Cerezo Osaka
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2010 Cerezo Osaka 126 (55)
2010–2012 Borussia Dortmund 49 (21)
2012-2014 Manchester United 38 0(6)
2014-2019 Borussia Dortmund 99 (20)
2018 Borussia Dortmund II 1 0(0)
2019 →  Beşiktaş Istanbul  (loan) 14 0(4)
2019– Real Zaragoza 22 0(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2006-2009 Japan U20 6 0(0)
2008 Japan U23 5 0(1)
2008– Japan 97 (31)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 29, 2020

2 As of March 26, 2019

Shinji Kagawa [ ˈkaɡaɰa ] ( Japanese 香 川 真 司 , Kagawa Shinji ; born March 17, 1989 in Tarumi-ku , Kobe , Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese football player . He has been under contract with Real Zaragoza in Spain since August 2019 and is a Japanese international.

Career

Club career

Beginnings in Hyogo and Miyagi

In Tarumi-ku was born and, a municipality of Kobe grew Kagawa began his active career as a football player at the clubs Marino FC Club and Kobe NK Soccer Club and still moved at a young age to the training club FC Miyagi Barcelona in the Miyagi Prefecture . There he played in the junior youth team from 2001 to 2003 and in the years 2004 and 2005 in the pure youth team.

Time at Cerezo Osaka

In 2006 Kagawa finally got a professional contract with Cerezo Osaka , who had their game operations at that time in the J. League Division 1, offered. This season he was in the club's professional squad, but was mainly used in the club's youth team and had to wait until 2007 for his first professional appearance. After the team's relegation to Division 2 , Kagawa came to the men's team of the big city club in his first season on 35 league appearances, in which he scored five goals.

After a rather mediocre fifth place in the 2007 season-end table, the team made it to fourth place in 2008 and just missed the relegation round for promotion to the top division. The committed offensive midfielder again played 35 championship games this season, but was able to show a significantly better goal rate than last year: he scored 16 goals over the entire season. The 2009 season was very successful for both Cerezo Osaka and Shinji Kagawa himself. The team, led by the Brazilian Levir Culpi , was two points behind Vegalta Sendai in second place in the final table and thus rose directly to the top Japanese league. In 44 missions Kagawa came to a record of 122 shots on goal, with which he scored 27 goals and was top scorer of the J. League Division 2 .

With the rise, his goal danger did not decrease. In Division 1 he came in eleven games on seven goals and one assist.

Move to Germany

In the winter of the 2009/2010 season, Kagawa was invited by Thomas Kroth's agency to take part in tests at Schalke, Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen. He signed a three-year contract with Borussia Dortmund that will come into effect on July 1, 2010. Instead of a transfer fee, the Borussia transferred a training allowance of € 350,000 to Cerezo Osaka. In his first Europa League game on August 19, 2010, he scored his first two competitive goals for Dortmund against the Azerbaijani club FK Qarabağ Ağdam . On September 11, 2010 (3rd matchday) he scored his first Bundesliga goal in the game against VfL Wolfsburg to make it 2-0. The following day he scored the first two goals for BVB in the Revierderby at FC Schalke 04 , which Dortmund won 3-1 in the end. After five goalless games in the Europa League, he marked the 1-0 win against Karpaty Lviv on December 2 with a header . In the 2010/11 season he was German champion with BVB , although he had not played the entire second half of the season because of a metatarsal fracture. Almost a year later, on the 32nd matchday of the 2011/12 season , Kagawa defended the 2011 title with Borussia Dortmund and was German champion for the second time in his career. He also won the DFB Cup with BVB on May 12, 2012 , scoring 1-0 in the final. His contract with BVB ran until June 30, 2013. The club wanted to extend the contract after the season, but Kagawa turned down offers for a contract extension.

Change to the Premier League

In the summer break of 2012, Kagawa moved to Manchester United . After receiving a work permit and passing a medical check, he signed a four-year contract until June 30, 2016. The transfer fee is said to have been 16 million euros. He played his first competitive game for Manchester on August 20, 2012 in the 0-1 away defeat against Everton on the first day of the 2012/13 season . He scored his first goal for United a week later in the home game at Old Trafford against Fulham FC .

Return to Borussia Dortmund

On August 31, 2014, Kagawa returned to the Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund . He signed a four-year contract until June 30, 2018 and is said to have cost BVB eight million euros. On his comeback in the Bundesliga, he scored 2-0 against SC Freiburg in the meantime. In the 2016/17 season , Shinji Kagawa won the DFB Cup for the second time with BVB.

On July 14, 2017, Kagawa extended his contract in Dortmund prematurely until 2020.

Change to the Süper Lig

On January 31, 2019, a six-month loan deal was agreed with the Turkish first division club Beşiktaş Istanbul . The reason for this was only four of the 27 possible competitive appearances in the current season. He played his first game for Beşiktaş on February 3, 2019, when he came on for Adem Ljajić in the 81st minute in the 6-2 win over Antalyaspor and contributed two goals. At the end of the season, the club secured third place in the Europa League participation , Kagawa completed 14 league games and scored four times. At the end of the season he left the club after his loan contract expired.

Return to Dortmund

After his return to the club Kagawa was looking exempted , but participated in parts of the preparation part. Until he left, the Japanese stayed fit with the second team and was still looking for a new employer.

Engagement in Spain

At the beginning of August 2019, the Spanish second division Real Saragossa signed the midfielder and provided him with a two-year contract. The Japanese started the season with the team as a regular.

National team

2006 Kagawa was appointed to the U20 selection of Japan for the first time . Until 2009 he was used in six games and played two games during the 2007 Junior World Cup in Canada , where the Japanese U20s were eliminated as group winners in the round of 16 against the Czech team on penalties. In 2008, the 1.72 m tall midfielder made it into the Japanese Olympic team, which was eliminated from the Olympic Games football tournament as the bottom of the group . In total, Kagawa brought it to five U23 appearances in 2008 and scored one goal.

Even before his Olympic participation of Offensive allrounder came on 24 May 2008 on his first senior international use when he at 1: 0 victory of Japan on the Ivory Coast during the Kirin Cup in 75 minutes for France -Legionär Daisuke Matsui on came the place. To his first goal for the senior team came Kagawa on October 9, 2008, when he scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory over the national team of the UAE . Until February 2010, the two-footed offensive player was used in ten international matches and scored two goals.

After Kagawa had initially canceled the 2010 World Cup , the Japanese Football Association announced on May 17, 2010 that he would take part in the preparation as a reservist. In fact, he was not part of the Japanese national team at the World Cup.

Kagawa took part in the 2011 Asian Cup with Japan in January 2011 . He injured himself in the semi-final game against South Korea and immediately returned to Dortmund. On January 27, 2011, a metatarsal fracture was diagnosed, which is why Kagawa had to pause until matchday 33. On the final day of the match, on the occasion of the celebration of the already established championship title, Kagawa came on in the 87th minute.

On May 8, 2014 Shinji was appointed by coach Alberto Zaccheroni to the squad of the Japanese national soccer team for the 2014 World Cup . She was eliminated after the preliminary round.

Four years later, Shinji was again part of the Japanese squad for the 2018 World Cup . In the opening game he scored the opening goal to make it 2-1 against Colombia from the penalty spot.

successes

Cerezo Osaka
  • Promotion to the J. League (Division 1): 2009
Japan
Borussia Dortmund
Manchester United

Awards

Others

Shinji supports the Common Goal initiative , in which soccer players donate one percent of their salaries.

literature

Oliver Mayer: Okudera, Kagawa & Co. - Japanese in the Bundesliga. In: Studies on German Literature and Language (Japanese Society for German Studies, Tokai Section). No. 44, 2012, pp. 97-105. Full text of the article.

Web links

Commons : Shinji Kagawa  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pronunciation in Japanese. In: de.forvo.com. Retrieved February 8, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Interview with Shinji Kagawa on j-leaguers.net ( memento from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese), accessed on May 12, 2010
  3. ↑ List of goalscorers J. League Division 2 2008 ( Memento of June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 12, 2010
  4. ↑ List of goalscorers J. League Division 2 2009 ( Memento of July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 12, 2010
  5. ↑ List of goalscorers J. League Division 1 2010 ( Memento of October 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 12, 2010
  6. ↑ BVB signs Japanese Shinji Kagawa , accessed on May 12, 2010
  7. ↑ Shinji Kagawa , on The Rising Sun News
  8. ↑ Official: Shinji Kagawa moves to Borussia Dortmund , accessed on May 12, 2010
  9. ↑ 4: 0 - Kagawa and Barrios shoot the goal to the group stage wide , bvb.de
  10. ↑ Sahin speaks a word of power , kicker.de
  11. ↑ Hummels & Co. warm up the south stand , kicker.de
  12. ↑ Kagawa finally rejects contract extension , spiegel.de
  13. ↑ Shinji Kagawa moves to Manchester United , bvb.de
  14. ↑ Kagawa seals Reds move , manutd.com
  15. ↑ Kagawa signs with United , sport1.de
  16. ^ Everton 1-0 Man. Utd. BBC Sport, August 20, 2012, accessed August 21, 2012 .
  17. ↑ Man. Utd. 3-2 Fulham. BBC Sport, August 25, 2012, accessed August 26, 2012 .
  18. ↑ Shinji Kagawa returns to Borussia Dortmund. Borussia Dortmund, August 31, 2014, accessed on August 31, 2014 .
  19. ↑ Richard Leipold: Narrow shoulders, heavy load. faz, September 11, 2014, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Borussia Dortmund extends Shinji Kagawa until 2020. Borussia Dortmund, July 14, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2017 .
  21. ↑ Bosporus instead of a leash: Kagawa changes to Besiktas. Accessed January 31, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Antalyaspor - Besiktas Istanbul, 02/03/2019 - Süper Lig - match report. Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
  23. ↑ BVB XXL squad: Schürrle and Kagawa released at the beginning , kicker.de, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019.
  24. ↑ Hummels and Götze travel to - BVB flies with Kagawa to the first test match in Schweinberg , ruhrnachrichten.de, July 12, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2019.
  25. ↑ BVB is looking for a "good solution" for a "special case" Kagawa , kicker.de, accessed on August 8, 2019
  26. ↑ Shinji Kagawa moves to Real Saragossa , bvb.de, accessed on August 9, 2019
  27. ↑ Japan - Czech Republic 3: 4 nE (2: 2 n.V.) , accessed May 12, 2010
  28. ↑ Czech catch-up shocks Japan , accessed May 12, 2010
  29. ↑ Asian teams need tutoring in their graduation , accessed on May 12, 2010
  30. ↑ Kirin Cup 2008 at rsssf.com (English), accessed on May 12, 2010
  31. ↑ International friendlies in 2008 on rsssf.com (English), accessed on May 12, 2010
  32. ↑ Kagawa flies with me to the Cape , accessed on May 23, 2011
  33. ↑ Broken metatarsus! Kagawa threatens the end of the season , accessed on May 23, 2011
  34. ↑ Kagawa: Metatarsal Fracture Confirmed , Retrieved May 23, 2011
  35. ↑ Seven in one go - but Hosogai is missing , kicker.de (May 12, 2014)
  36. ↑ BVB star Kagawa is the first district professional to donate one percent of his salary. In: nrz.de. Funke Mediengruppe, October 27, 2017, accessed on October 27, 2017 .


personal data
SURNAME Kagawa, Shinji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 香 川 真 司 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarumi-ku , Kobe , Hyogo Prefecture , Japan