Shinji Okazaki

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Shinji Okazaki
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Shinji Okazaki (2018)
Personnel
birthday April 16, 1986
place of birth Takarazuka , Hyogo Prefecture ,  Japan
size 174 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2002-2004 2. Takigawa High School
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2011 Shimizu S-Pulse 121 (42)
2011-2013 VfB Stuttgart 63 (10)
2013-2015 1. FSV Mainz 05 65 (27)
2015-2019 Leicester City 114 (14)
2019 Málaga CF 0 0(0)
2019– SD Huesca 26 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008 Japan U-23 (Olympia) 14 0(1)
2009– Japan 119 (50)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

2 As of June 24, 2019

Shinji Okazaki ( Japanese 岡 崎 慎 司 , Okazaki Shinji ; born April 16, 1986 in Takarazuka , Hyōgo Prefecture ) is a Japanese football player .

Career

societies

In the prefecture of Hyogo born Okazaki played in the youth team for the second Takigawa High School . After graduating in 2004, he signed a professional contract with Shimizu S-Pulse . In his first two seasons Okazaki was only used sporadically, but he soon established himself as one of the most dangerous strikers in the J. League .

On January 30, 2011 Okazaki moved to VfB Stuttgart . After his old club initially refused to allow the striker, VfB was granted the right to play the striker by FIFA on February 17, 2011 . On the same day, he made his debut for Stuttgart in the first leg of the sixteenth-finals of the Europa League 2010/11 against Benfica Lisbon . He made his Bundesliga debut on February 20, 2011, on matchday 23, in a 4-2 defeat in the away game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen . The overhead kick , with which Okazaki scored his eighth Bundesliga goal on February 19, 2012 in the away game of VfB Stuttgart at Hannover 96, was voted goal of the month . This made him the second Japanese after Yasuhiko Okudera to be named goalscorer of the month in Germany.

For the 2013/14 season Okazaki moved to 1. FSV Mainz 05 . He received a three-year contract with Mainz. In September 2014 Okazaki scored his 28th goal in the Bundesliga, overtaking Yasuhiko Okudera , who had been the most accurate Japanese player in the league until then. By the end of the season he had increased to 37 goals. On September 30, 2017, this mark was outbid by Shinji Kagawa .

In the 2015 summer break, he moved to Leicester City and became English champions with the team at the end of the 2015/16 season . He scored 14 goals in 114 league games for Leicester City and left the club at the end of the 2018/19 season .

Then Okazaki first joined the Málaga FC . Since the club was unable to present the agreed salary in the budget for the next season, he left Malaga in early September 2019 without having played a game.

Since September 4, 2019 he has been under contract with the Spanish second division club SD Huesca .

National team

Shinji Okazaki

In 2008 he took part in the Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Japanese U-23 selection . There he played all three games for the Japanese team, which was eliminated after three defeats in the preliminary round without winning a point. In October of the same year he made his debut in the match against the United Arab Emirates in the senior national team . As a result, he was in the starting line-up several times in the qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Was with his 15 international goals achieved despite its small size, especially for his heading ability Okazaki known world top scorer in 2009 the International Federation of Football History & Statistics . With his winning goal to 1-0 against Uzbekistan , he ensured his country's early World Cup qualification. At the World Cup finals, he reached the round of 16 with Japan as group runner-up behind the Netherlands , in which they were eliminated against Paraguay after a 0-0 penalty. Okazaki was substituted on in all four games of the Japanese team at the World Cup and scored against Denmark in the final group game to make it 3-1.

With the senior national team, he qualified first in qualifying group A for the 2011 Asian Cup in Qatar with just one defeat . With only one defeat (in the game against Bahrain ), the Japanese were group winners of Group A. Of the 17 Japanese goals scored in qualifying, Okazaki scored six and was the most successful goalscorer. On January 29, 2011, he and his team were Asian champions after Australia had been defeated 1-0 in extra time in the final. Okazaki scored three goals for Japan in that tournament.

On March 29, 2016, he made his 100th international match in the World Cup qualifier against Syria , led the team onto the field as captain and received a shirt with the number 100 after the game.

successes

society
National team

Awards

Others

In 2014 Okazaki founded the soccer club FC Basara Mainz together with the former Mainz soccer player Takashi Yamashita . The club has been playing in the Association League Southwest since the 2019/20 season and plays its home games on the sports field of SC Moguntia 1896 Mainz .

Web links

Commons : Shinji Okazaki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shinji Okazaki signs with VfB on January 30, 2011 on VfB.de.
  2. ↑ release for Shinji Okazaki of 17 February 2011 on VfB.de
  3. ↑ Shinji Okazaki will move to Mainz on June 25, 2013 on VfB.de.
  4. ↑ Shinji Okazaki: Mainz overtakes compatriot Okudera. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 14, 2014, accessed on August 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Kagawa: "Typically Japanese" on the record hit Kicker.de on October 1, 2017
  6. ↑ Report on mainz05.de, accessed on June 27, 2015
  7. ↑ Shinji Okazaki Agrees Leicester City Deal , lcfc.com of June 26, 2015
  8. ^ Leicester's Christian Fuchs signs new deal as Danny Simpson & Shinji Okazaki leave bbc.co.uk, accessed December 8, 201p
  9. ↑ Shinji Okazaki leaves Malaga without playing football-espana.net, accessed December 8, 2019
  10. ↑ Okazaki, la guinda al ataque de la SD Huesca sdhuesca.es, accessed December 8, 2019
  11. ↑ jfa.jp: "SAMURAI BLUE beat Syria 5-0 to top group in FIFA World Cup Russia Asian Qualifiers Round 2's last match"
  12. ↑ Sportschau: Goal of the Month February 2012
  13. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung ; 05 professional Okazaki and two colleagues found the football club FC Basara Mainz on June 11, 2015
  14. ↑ 11 Friends : Takashi Yamashita and the Japanese Football Club from July 29, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Okazaki, Shinji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岡 崎 慎 司 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Takarazuka , Hyogo Prefecture , Japan