Shun'ichirō Okano

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Shun'ichirō Okano
Shunichiro Okano 1953.jpg
Shun'ichirō Okano 1953
Personnel
birthday August 28, 1931
place of birth TokyoJapan
date of death 2nd February 2017
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1957 Tokyo University
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1955 Japan 2 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1970-1971 Japan
1 Only league games are given.

Shun'ichirō Okano ( Japanese 岡野 俊 一郎 , Okano Shun'ichirō ; born August 28, 1931 in Tokyo ; † February 2, 2017 ibid) was a Japanese football official and former football player and coach.

Career

In 1955, Okano made his debut in the Japanese national soccer team , for which he played a total of two international matches.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 and in Mexico City in 1968 , he was assistant coach of the Olympic team under Ken Naganuma . In 1970 he was Naganuma's successor as coach of the national team, but only kept this post for a few months.

Okano then became a sports official: from 1977 to 1991 he was Secretary General of the National Olympic Committee , then a member of the Executive Committee, from 1979 to 2007 a member of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), from 1975 to 1991 director of the Japanese Amateur Sports Association, from 1985 to 1990 Vice-President of the General Association of Asian Sports Federations (GAASF), from 1990 to 2012 member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), thereafter honorary member, from 1998 to 2002 President of the Japanese Football Association , then honorary president and since 2008 chief advisor, from 2002 to 2004 president of the East Asian Football Federation .

Okano died on February 2, 2017 in a hospital in Tokyo of complications from lung cancer .

Awards

In 1990 he received the NHK Culture Prize and the Blue Ribbon Medal of the Japanese Government, the Tokyo Prefecture Culture Prize in 1991, the "Blue Dragon" order of the South Korean government in 2003, the Order of the Rising Sun (3rd class) in 2004 , In 2005 he was inducted into the Japan Football Hall of Fame , in 2012 the Olympic silver medal and the nomination as a person with special cultural merits by the Japanese government.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Japan official Shun-Ichiro Okano dies; led World Cup organizing committee . In: ESPNFC.com . ( espnfc.com [accessed February 8, 2017]).
  2. a b Mr. Shun-ichiro OKANO. International Olympic Committee, accessed December 30, 2014 .