Tōmi Shimomura

Tōmi Shimomura
Personnel
birthday	December 18, 1980
place of birth	Sapporo , Hokkaidō ,  Japan
size	181 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1990-1993	Sapporo Sumikawa SS
1993-1995	Sapporo Middle School
1996-1998	1. Sapporo High School
1999-2002	Osaka Sports University
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2007	Cerezo Osaka	73 (3)
2007-2009	JEF United	84 (1)
2010–2012	Montedio Yamagata	45 (1)
2012-2014	Shonan Bellmare	25 (1)
2014-2015	Giravanz Kitakyushu	12 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Tōmi Shimomura ( Japanese 下 村 東 美 , Shimomura Tōmi ; born December 18, 1980 in Sapporo , Hokkaidō ) is a former Japanese - Austrian football player . Most recently he was in the J. League Division 2 with Giravanz Kitakyushu under contract.

Club career

Adolescent years

The son of an Austrian emigrant and a Japanese woman began playing football in elementary school in his hometown of Sapporo. At first he was also active in tennis, but from high school onwards he concentrated completely on football in favor of his career. The decisive factor for this was his father, who was an amateur player in his home country. Already during his high school time he came to the side of the later Japanese national player and then exceptional talent Kōji Yamase in the focus of his home club Consadole Sapporo , the two submitted a contract offer. While Yamase accepted and was in the J-League from 2000, Shimomura decided to study at a university.

In 1999 he came to the Osaka Taiiku Daigaku ("Sports University Osaka"; English Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences ) where he was allowed to celebrate his first successes as a footballer. As the captain of his university team, he was honored to be part of the Kansai selection , which honors the best youth players.

Cerezo Osaka

After completing his studies in 2003, he then signed his first professional contract with the J. League team Cerezo Osaka . As a result, it was not until the 2004 season before he was allowed to debut for Cerezo in the J-League under the then Bosnian coach Fuad Muzurović . Previously, he was only used in the Emperor's Cup and friendly games. After the dismissal of Muzurović and the appointment of Shinji Kobayashi as head coach in the same season, he became a regular player for the first time. Kobayashi subsequently proved to be a great supporter of Shimomura and pulled him from defense to his traditional position in defensive midfield. This was remarkable because this position was previously held by the expensive Serbian legionnaire Miodrag Andjelkovic , who subsequently had to be content with a seat on the bench. The changes took effect and Cerezo managed as fifteenth in the table just about relegation to the J-League.

A major upheaval in the team followed in the 2005 season. All European legionaries, including Davorin Kablar , Ivan Radeljic and the Croatian ex-team player Krunoslav Lovrek, had to leave the club and were largely replaced by local talent. Only the departure of top scorer Yoshito Ōkubo to RCD Mallorca was tried to compensate for by signing Brazilian Fabinho . The plan worked again. The previously chronically relegation-threatened Cerezo played big around Shimomura, who was appointed captain for the first time during the season, and took the lead on the penultimate match day of the season. In the last game of the season this was successfully defended into stoppage time, before a late goal by FC Tokyo gave the title dorch out of hand and fell back to fifth place in the table. To make matters worse, local rivals Gamba Osaka became champions, which led to collective trauma in the team.

This became noticeable in the following season, in which the hardly changed team could no longer match the performance of the previous year and bobbed around at the bottom of the league table. Naturally, Kobayashi's dismissal followed, but this did not have the desired effect. Cerezo rose as the penultimate for the second time in the history of the club from the J-League. Shimomura emerged as one of the few winners of the season, as he was one of the few who was able to prolong his upward trend in performance and after relegation had some contract offers from other clubs.

JEF United

2007 he transferred to JEF United , where with Amar Osim , son of the Japanese national team coach ordered Ivica Osim , was confirmed as coach. At JEF Shimomura got a regular place straight away and together with Kōki Mizuno formed a strong midfield. However, the rest of the team acted very disappointing and only reached thirteenth place in the table against the high expectations. As a result, Osim had to leave and the Croatian Josip Kuže was appointed as the new coach.

The year 2008 started disastrously for JEF. It had a lot to do with a failed transfer policy by Kuže, whose commitments were all disappointing. Mirko Hrgović , who was brought in for dear money and who was supposed to replace midfield star Mizuno who had migrated to Celtic Glasgow , turned out to be a veritable flop and was surrendered after four months. It was similar with the Brazilians Alex and Michael and the Japanese national hero Kazuyuki Toda , who was brought in as a defense organizer and who had clearly passed his zenith. After finding themselves at the bottom of the table after 13 rounds, Kuže had to vacate his coaching chair as a consequence and was replaced by the then assistant coach of Liverpool FC , the Scot Alex Miller .

Under Miller, JEF managed to stay in the league as fifteenth in a row, but the result meant the worst placement of the ambitious club since 1998. Shimomura, meanwhile also captain of JEF-United, acted as his mouthpiece during Miller’s time, as he could not speak Japanese and the rest of the team had trouble understanding his Scottish accent. In an interview with the BBC , Shimomura stated that in Miller's early days he only understood 40 to 50% of his instructions and statements.

For the 2009 season Miller tried to make a change and reduced the bloated squad from 37 to 24 players. As a result, they went into the season without a European legionnaire, but with some local talent with the aim of forming a functioning team. When this failed and JEF bobbed around at the bottom of the table the entire season, the club pulled the ripcord and dismissed Miller in June 2009. At this point, JEF was already at the bottom of the table, which Miller's successor Atsuhiko Ejiri could not change. At the end of the season, JEF rose from the J-League for the first time in the club's history as bottom of the table. At no point in the season had the young team been able to prove their suitability for the first division, and captain Shimomura was visibly overwhelmed by leading the young players.

Montedio Yamagata

After his second descent in three years, he then joined the first-class Montedio Yamagata , which has been in charge of his former sponsor Shinji Kobayashi since 2009 . Due to a persistent knee injury, which he had already sustained at the end of last season, he had to sit out in the first two games of the season. On March 21, he reported back from convalescence and made his debut for Yamagata in a 1-1 draw against the Urawa Red Diamonds in the J-League.

In addition to his native Japanese and English , he also speaks fluent German due to his Austrian father .

successes

• 1 × Emperor's Cup : Final 2003
• 1 × Kansai selection: 2002

Web links

• Player profile on the official website of Montedio Yamagata (Japanese)
• Image of Shimomura as the captain of JEF United

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shimomura Profile ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. so-net.ne.jp, accessed April 1, 2010 
2. ↑ [J's GOAL] 【スペシャルインタビューVol.19】セレッソ大阪:下村東美選手「子供の頃, Jリーグチップスのカードで憧れの澤登選手が出て,めちゃ嬉しかった」 ( Memento of 3 July 2007 Internet Archive ) J'sGOAL ニ ュ ー ス, accessed April 1, 2010
3. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Shimomura Interview: 25/08/04 ) ws1.axseed.net, accessed on April 1, 2010
4. ↑ 「今 こ そ！ WIN BY ALL！」 Complete！ ジ ェ フ ユ ナ イ テ ッ ド 市 原 ・ 千葉 ( Memento from February 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) so-net.ne.jp, accessed on April 1, 2010
5. ↑ Miller time in Japan bbc.co.uk, accessed April 1, 2010
6. ↑ Shimomura Player Database  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ws1.axseed.net, accessed April 1, 2010  
7. ↑ Introducing the new Yamagata players ( memento January 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) sanspo.com, accessed April 1, 2010
8. ↑ Shimomura on Montedio jef-united.tea-nifty.com, accessed April 1, 2010
9. ↑ 山形 ・ 下 村 、 上 々 の 感触 得 る！ 移 籍 後 初 出場 ( Memento from March 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) sanspo.com, accessed April 1, 2010