Takefusa Kubo

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Takefusa Kubo
Personnel
birthday June 4, 2001
place of birth Kawasaki ,  Japan
size 170 cm
position Attacking midfield
Sturm
Juniors
Years station
2008-2009 FC Persimmon
2010-2011 Kawasaki Frontale
2011-2015 FC Barcelona
2015-2017 FC Tokyo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016-2018 FC Tokyo 6 (0)
2016-2018 FC Tokyo U23 34 (5)
2018 →  Yokohama F. Marinos  (loan) 5 (1)
2019 FC Tokyo 13 (4)
2019 real Madrid 0 (0)
2019-2020 →  RCD Mallorca  (loan) 35 (4)
2020– →  Villarreal CF  (loan) 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2015 Japan U15 5 (7)
2015-2016 Japan U16 12 (4)
2016-2017 Japan U17 7 (3)
2016 Japan U19 2 (0)
2017– Japan U20 5 (0)
2019– Japan 7 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 10, 2020

2 As of October 15, 2019

Takefusa Kubo ( Japanese 久保 建 英 Kubo Takefusa , born June 4, 2001 in Asao-ku , Kawasaki , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese football player in the position of an attacking midfielder and striker .

Club career

Successful young player

Takefusa Kubo was born on June 4, 2001 in Asao-ku , one of the seven boroughs of Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. He began his career as a football player in 2008 with the local club FC Persimmon from Kawasaki and already stood out for his talent. After playing club football for just one year, he joined an FC Barcelona football camp in Japan in August 2009 and was voted Most Valuable Player (MVP) at the end of this camp . Due to his performance, the then eight-year-old was brought into a school team of FC Barcelona in April 2010 and took part in the Sodexo European Rusas Cup , a youth football tournament in Belgium . With the selection of FC Barcelona he took third place in the final ranking, but was also awarded here as an MVP. After returning to his home country, he moved to the youth department of the major club Kawasaki Frontale . However, he was only active there for a little over a year and, after successfully completing a trial training session at FC Barcelona, ​​switched to the same in August 2011.

Change to FC Barcelona

At the La Masia academy , he initially appeared for the U11 team Barca Alevin C , where he quickly attracted attention due to his pronounced scoring potential . In the 2012/13 season, his first full season in Spain , he scored 74 goals in 30 games. In 2013/14 he was MVP at the Mediterranean Cup U12 and helped his team to the league championship title and the Copa Catalunya of the youth teams. In the following season 2014/15 he played for Barca Infantil A , the club's U14 team. For this, however, he was only used briefly. Since FC Barcelona had violated the international transfer rules for underage players of FIFA , Kubo's right to play for FC Barcelona was revoked, whereupon the then 13-year-old joined FC Tokyo and its youth department in his home country in March 2015 .

Return home and breakthrough as a professional

In Tokyo, he quickly passed through the club's youth division and appeared for the U18 team in 2016. In September of the same year, under coach Yoshiyuki Shinoda, he made the leap into the men's team with play in the J1 League , the highest Japanese football league, at which point he was just 15 years old. On November 5, 2016 he then made his competitive debut for the Japanese third division An incoming second team of FC Tokyo. In the 1: 2 home defeat against AC Nagano Parceiro , he was substituted on at half-time. At the time he was 15 years, five months and one day old, which was a new J. League record. The J. League comprises the three top football leagues in the country (J1, J2 and J3). In the two subsequent league games, the last two of the 2016 game year , Kubo also played and ended the year with the team in tenth place in the final standings. In the following game year 2017 , he was already a regular player for FC Tokyo U-23. On April 15, 2017, he became the youngest scorer in the history of the J. League when he scored the only goal of the game in minute 38 in the 1-0 away win over Cerezo Osaka U-23 .

A little over two weeks later, he made his competitive debut for the club's first team when he came on the pitch in minute 66 in a group match of the J. League Cup 2017 against Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo for Kensuke Nagai on May 3, 2017 . A week later he had another brief assignment in this competition, but was subsequently no longer considered. The team made it to the quarterfinals, in which it was clearly defeated by Kawasaki Frontale with a total score of 1: 7. He also showed a special performance to the day exactly one year after his professional debut in a 3: 4 away defeat against Gamba Osaka U-23 , when he contributed one goal and one assist. Three weeks later, at the age of 16 years, five months and 22 days, he made his debut in the top Japanese football league when he was substituted on for Kensuke Nagai in the 67th minute of the 2-1 away defeat against Sanfrecce Hiroshima by the now coach Takayoshi Amma . Also in the following and at the same time last championship round of the 2017 game year , Kubo made a short assignment on December 2nd. In the final table, FC Tokyo took 13th place; FC Toyko U-23 finished eleventh in the J3 League. In the course of the year, Kubo , who was mostly used as a center forward, hanging top or attacking midfielder, was used in 21 third division games and had a record of two hits and one assist.

After the club's management agreed in November 2017 to update his contract and pay him as a full-fledged first division player, the young Japanese came to further appearances in the country's top division in the following 2018 season . Under Kenta Hasegawa , who had taken over the coaching post after the end of the game year by Takayoshi Amma, he came to regular short appearances in the J1 League, especially in the beginning of the 2018 game year, before he was more and more often unused on the bench and back to a regular player second team in the J3 League. However , Kubo, often referred to as the Japanese Lionel Messi , made regular appearances in the 2018 J. League Cup , when he played all six group games of his team and occasionally contributed one goal. After he was used more and more on the right side as right winger or in another position in right midfield over the course of the year, the young offensive player switched to Yokohama F. Marinos on loan in order to gain more game practice in the upper house .

At the club from Yokohama , one of the most successful in the country, he signed a loan contract in mid-August 2018 until the end of the year. When League game on August 19 against the Kashima Antlers still without use on the bench, he debuted a week later at a 2: 0 away win over Vissel Kobe as hanging tip for the club in league action when he coached Ange Postecoglou used from the start was and in the 56th minute after presentation by Ken Matsubara scored to lead 1-0. A few minutes later he was substituted for Teruhito Nakagawa . A few days earlier, he made his competitive debut for the team in the 2018 Kaiser Cup .

Change to Spain

For the season 2019/20 Kubo moved to Real Madrid . There he should initially be in the squad of the second team and could have played for the A-Juniors (U19). Kubo completed the pre-season, however, with the professional team of head coach Zinédine Zidane . At the end of August, he was loaned to the newly promoted and league competitor RCD Mallorca until the end of the season. There the offensive player was able to convince with 35 league games (23 times from the start) in which he scored 4 goals. The RCD Mallorca, however, rose as the penultimate in the Segunda División .

For the 2020/21 season , the 19-year-old Kubo was loaned out to Villarreal CF within the Primera División .

National team career

2015 and 2016

Kubo had his first appearances in the youth national team of the Japan Football Association , the Japanese football association, in 2015, when he first appeared for the U-15 national team of his home country . In 2015 he was mostly used in friendly international matches and also played against European teams, scoring a goal against the English U-16 team in October 2015 . He also played qualifying games with the U-15 team for the 2016 U-16 Asian Cup in India . In total, he made five international appearances and seven goals for Japan's U-15s. In the following year, 2016, he was used alternately for the Japanese U-16 and U-17 juniors . In June 2016 he took part with the U-16 national team in Japan in the International Dream Cup 2016 , a soccer tournament for U-16 national teams.

He then completed in August the preparation for the U-16 Asian Cup taking place in the following month and was nominated by coach Yoshirō Moriyama in Japanese selection for the finals in India. In the group stage, the Japanese were by far the most dangerous team in the tournament; Japan scored 21 goals in three group games and did not concede a single goal. Kubo himself scored two goals in the 7-0 win over Vietnam and the 8-0 win over Kyrgyzstan and went goalless in the 6-0 win over Australia . After a narrow victory over the United Arab Emirates in the subsequent quarter-finals, the Japanese were eliminated in the semi-finals with 2: 4 against Iraq . In March 2016, Kubo also made his debut for the aforementioned Japanese U-17 juniors, with whom he took part in the so-called SANIX Cup International Youth Soccer Tournament 2016 and won it. He also took part in international matches for the Japanese U-17 national team in 2016 .

Since 2017

Especially in the following year 2017, the young offensive player, who was now often used in the position of a center forward, was considered a regular player in the Japanese U-17 national team and also made regular appearances in the U-20 team of his home country . The then 15-year-old made his U-20 international debut on March 24 in a 2-1 loss to Germany when he was sent onto the field by coach Atsushi Uchiyama in the 56th minute for Kōki Ogawa . After he was also used in preparation, he was part of a 21-man squad in May and June 2017 that took part in the 2017 U-20 World Cup in neighboring South Korea . At this World Cup finals, he played two of the three group games in Japan, but did not play through the full 90 minutes in either of the two. As third in group D and second in the ranking of the group third , the team made it into the subsequent round of 16 . In this, however, Japan lost 0: 1 in extra time to their peers from Venezuela ; Kubo came on in the 63rd minute of the game to replace Akito Takagi .

In August he took part with the U-17 national team of Japan in preparation for the World Cup in October and played a number of games in the Václav Ježek memorial tournament . In three of four possible appearances in this tournament, he scored a total of two goals; one of them in the 4-2 victory in the final over the hosts . About a month later he was called up by Yoshiro Moriyama in the 21-man squad for the U-17 World Cup finals in India. After Moriyama had brought him into the 21-man squad of this finals, the young offensive player was used in all four games of his team. After a second place in Group E and the associated move into the knockout phase, the team was eliminated in the subsequent round of 16 game against England after a 3-5 defeat on penalties . In the tournament, which he played as a regular on the offensive, he was particularly noticeable in the first group game against Honduras, when he scored a goal after submission by Keito Nakamura himself in the 6-1 win and prepared two more goals for the said Nakamura.

In 2018 he was mainly a member of the Japanese U-19 national team, for which he made his debut two years earlier, and took part in a tour of Mexico with them in September .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ ＦＣ 東京 Ｕ － ２３ - ＡＣ 長野 パ ル セ イ ロ (1: 2) (Japanese), accessed September 8, 2018
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  4. ↑ MESSI BUSINESS - Lionel Messi: From the 'Scottish Messi' Ryan Gauld to the 'Kosovo Messi' Edon Zhegrova… how have the wonderkids dubbed 'the new Lionel Messi' fared? (English), accessed on September 8, 2018
  5. ↑ Takefusa Kubo: The "Japanese Messi" from Barcelona's La Masia , accessed on September 8, 2018
  6. ↑ Record child prodigy Takefusa Kubo: Barca career in the second attempt for the "Japanese Messi"? (English), accessed on September 8, 2018
  7. ↑ a b 久保 建 英 選手 期限 付 き 移 籍 加入 の お 知 ら せ (Japanese), accessed September 8, 2018
  8. ↑ Takefusa Kubo is a new Real Madrid player. He joins Castilla from next season , realmadrid.com, June 14, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019.
  9. ↑ Kubo set to be registered by Real Madrid as youth team player , as.com, July 17, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ Kubo: “I'm unhappy with the result but pleased to have made my debut” , realmadrid.com, July 21, 2019, accessed on August 23, 2019.
  11. ↑ Official Announcement: Kubo , realmadrid.com, accessed on August 23, 2019.
  12. ↑ Official press release: Kubo , August 10, 2020, accessed on August 10, 2020.
  13. ↑ Japanese U-15 squad in February 2015 (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  14. ↑ U-15 Japan National Team win friendly match against Thailand , accessed on September 9, 2018
  15. ↑ Victory over U-15 England National Team in Val-de-Marne U-16 International Friendly Tournament 2015 (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  16. ↑ “00JAPAN” U-15 Japan National Team beat Hong Kong 7-0, AFC U-16 Championship India 2016 Qualifiers , accessed September 9, 2018
  17. ↑ U-16 Japan National Team won the 1st match of the International Dream Cup 2016 , accessed September 9, 2018
  18. ↑ U-16 Japan National Team win two consecutive games at training camp in preparation for 2016 AFC U-16 Championship in India , accessed on September 9, 2018
  19. ↑ U-16 Japan National Team notch lopsided win over Vietnam in AFC U-16 Championship India 2016 opener , accessed on September 9, 2018
  20. ↑ U-16 Japan National Team win two consecutive group stage games to advance to the final tournament of AFC U-16 Championship India 2016 (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  21. ↑ U-16 Japan National Team to play quarterfinal after three consecutive wins in AFC U-16 Championship India 2016 (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  22. ↑ U-16 Japan squad eliminated in semi-final at AFC U-16 Championship India 2016 (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  23. ↑ U-17 Japan National Team win SANIX Cup International Youth Soccer Tournament 2016 for first time (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  24. ↑ U-20 Japan National Team defeat U-20 Honduras 3-2 in last friendly before World Cup Korea , accessed on September 9, 2018
  25. ↑ U-20 Japan National Team squad, schedule - FIFA U-20 World Cup Korea Republic 2017 (5 / 20-6 / 11) (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  26. ↑ 24th International Youth Tournament of Vaclav Jezek 2017 (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  27. ↑ Vaclav Jezek U-18 Tournament (Czech Republic) on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on September 9, 2018
  28. ↑ U-17日本代表 メ ン バ ー ・ ス ケ ジ ュ ー ル FIFA U-17 ワ ー ル ド カ ッ プ イ ン ド 2017 （10/6 ～ 28 (Japanese), accessed September 9, 2018
  29. ↑ Japanese U-17 squad for the 2017 World Cup (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  30. ↑ Japan advance to knockout stage with draw against New Caledonia in FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  31. ↑ Shoot-out drama goes England's way (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
  32. ↑ U-17 Japan National Team lose close game to England in Round of 16 of FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 , accessed on September 9, 2018
  33. ↑ U-19 Japan National Team squad, schedule - Mexico tour (9 / 2-13 ＠Mexico City) (English), accessed on September 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Kubo, Takefusa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 久保 建 英
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH Asao-ku , Kawasaki , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan