Yoko Tanaka

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Yoko Tanaka
Yōko Tanaka 2012 (cropped) .JPG
Tanaka with the silver shoe of the U-20 World Cup 2012
Personnel
birthday June 30, 1993
place of birth Yamaguchi ,  Japan
size 157 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
FC Leone
2006–2012 JFA Academy Fukushima
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012– INAC Kobe Leonessa 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008–2012 Japan U-17 9 (4)
2012– Japan U-20 6 (6)
2013– Japan 4 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

2 As of September 26, 2013

Yōko Tanaka ( Japanese 田中 陽 子 , Tanaka Yōko ; born June 30, 1993 in Yamaguchi , Yamaguchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese soccer player .

Club career

Tanaka began her football career at FC Leone Yamaguchi. In 2006 she was one of the first to enter the JFA Academy Fukushima, for which she played for six years. In 2012 she got a professional contract with the INAC Kobe Leonessa club in the highest Japanese women's league.

National team

Tanaka began her international career in 2008 when she played for Japan's U-17 national team at the U-17 World Cup in New Zealand at the age of 15 . At the 2010 U-17 World Cup in Trinidad and Tobago , she played all games as a regular. She was part of the squad of the Japanese U-20 national team that took part in the 2012 U-20 World Cup in Japan. At the World Cup, Tanaka scored six goals in six games, making it the second best goalscorer of the tournament and the most successful of her team.

In February 2013 she was appointed to the senior squad for the first time, which participated in the 2013 Algarve Cup . On March 5, 2013 she was substituted on in the first group game against Norway in the 56th minute for her first appearance. In the second group game against Germany and in the game for 5th place against China, she was substituted on at the second half.

After she was not nominated for the East Asian Women's Football Championship in 2013 , she came back to a brief appearance on September 22, 2013 in the first of the two friendly matches against Nigeria, for which a total of 41 players were nominated.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jfa.or: "New players called up for Nadeshiko's Algarve Cup trip"
  2. ↑ jfa.or: Match report Japan - Denmark 0: 2
  3. ↑ jfa.or: Match report Germany - Japan 2: 1
  4. ↑ jfa.or: Match report Japan - China 1-0
  5. ↑ fa.or: Match report Japan - Nigeria 2: 0 (PDF; 190 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Tanaka, Yoko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田中陽 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese female soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Yamaguchi , Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan