Yūji Nakazawa

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Yūji Nakazawa
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Yūji Nakazawa in 2008
in the jersey of the Japanese national team
Personnel
birthday February 25, 1978
place of birth Saitama Prefecture ,  Japan
size 187 cm
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-1997 America Mineiro
1999-2001 Verdy Kawasaki / Tokyo Verdy 1969 83 0(5)
2002-2018 Yokohama F. Marinos 512 (31)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1999-2000 Japan U-23 12 0(0)
1999-2010 Japan 110 (17)
1 Only league games are given.

Yūji Nakazawa ( Japanese 中 澤 佑 二 Nakazawa Yūji ; born February 25, 1978 in Yoshikawa , Saitama ) is a Japanese former football player on the position of a defender .

Career

Nakazawa played at Yoshikawa Higashi Middle School and Misato Technical High School in his youth . As a schoolboy he wrote in his notebook: “One day I will play for Japan in the World Cup and be the captain of my country.” After graduating from high school, he went to Brazil in 1996 to develop further through play. During his time at América Mineiro , the athletic and strong defender gained a lot of ball security. After his return home, he received a professional contract after another year of training in 1999 with Verdy Kawasaki , which a short time later became today's Tokyo Verdy club .

In the 1999 season, Nakazawa advanced to the J. League Discovery of the Year and played 28 point games. Already in his debut year he impressed with his loud presence on the pitch. In 2002 Nakazawa moved to the Yokohama F. Marinos and played there under the current national coach Takeshi Okada . He contributed to winning the J. League in 2003 and 2004 and was voted the league's most valuable player in the second year of the league, whereupon several foreign clubs wanted to sign him, including Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln . In the following years Yokohama could not repeat these successes, but Nakazawa remained the team's key player and was voted five times in the best team of the season in the J. League.

He made his debut for the Japanese national team on September 28, 1999 against Iran . At the 2002 World Cup in his own country, Nakazawa was not considered, but in Zico's four-year tenure he was a regular member of the squad and played all three preliminary round games at the 2006 World Cup in Germany. After this tournament, he surprisingly resigned from the national team, but returned a short time later. Yūji Nakazawa became the third Japanese player to hit the record 100 caps, winning two AFC Asian titles. He was in Japan's squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

statistics

Stations

  • Yoshikawa Higashi Middle School
  • Misato Technical High School
  • América Futebol Clube (Brazil, until 1998)
  • Verdy Kawasaki or Tokyo Verdy 1969 (1999 to 2001)
  • Yokohama F. Marinos (since 2002)

successes

Yokohama F. Marinos

Awards

See also

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Nakazawa, Yūji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中 澤 佑 二 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Yoshikawa , Saitama, Japan