Yūya Ōsako

Yūya Ōsako
at Werder Bremen 2019
Personnel
birthday	May 18, 1990
place of birth	Kaseda ,  Japan
size	182 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
2003-2005	Kagoshima Ikueikan Middle School
2006-2009	Kagoshima Jōsei High School
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2014	Kashima Antlers	139 (40)
2014	TSV 1860 Munich	15 0(6)
2014-2018	1. FC Cologne	108 (15)
2018–	Werder Bremen	49 (11)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009-2010	Japan U-20	7 0(1)
2011–2012	Japan U-23	8 0(2)
2013–	Japan	41 (14)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of February 2, 2019

Yūya Ōsako ( Japanese 大 迫 勇 也 , Ōsako Yūya ; born May 18, 1990 in Kaseda , Kagoshima Prefecture ) is a Japanese football player . He is under contract with Werder Bremen .

Career

societies

In early January 2014, Ōsako signed a contract with TSV 1860 Munich until June 2016 to strengthen the second division team as a striker from the second half of the season . He was used in 15 games and scored six goals. For the 2014/15 season he moved to Bundesliga promoted 1. FC Köln . On August 30, 2014, he scored his first goal in the Bundesliga in the game against VfB Stuttgart . For the season 2018/19 Osako moved to Werder Bremen .

National team

Ōsako made his debut on July 21, 2013 in a 3: 3 win against China in the jersey of the Japanese national team . He was named to the squad for the 2014 World Cup , where he was used in two of the three games the Japanese team played before he was eliminated.

Four years later, Ōsako was again part of the Japanese squad for the 2018 World Cup . In the opening game, he headed a corner to make it 2-1 against Colombia. At the beginning of 2019 he was also called up for the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates . During the tournament he scored a total of 4 goals and moved into the final with his team , where they lost 3-1 to the Qatari selection.

successes

Club teams

Kashima Antlers

• J. League Division 1 ( 1 ): 2009
• Imperial Cup ( 1 ): 2010
• J. League Cup ( 2 ): 2011, 2012
• Japanese Supercup ( 2 ): 2009, 2010
• Copa Suruga Bank ( 2 ): 2012, 2013

Japan

• East Asian Championship ( 1 ): 2013

Personally

• Most valuable player in the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup : 2011
• Top scorer in the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup : 2012
• Footballer of the Year in Japan: 2018

Web links

• Yūya Ōsako in the database of weltfussball.de
• Yūya Ōsako in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Yūya Ōsako in the J.League Data Site database (Japanese)

Others

Since June 19, 2019, there is a stadium in Minamisatsuma in Osako's home prefecture of Kagoshima called Osako Yuya Stadium .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Munich's new love from the Far East . Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 7, 2014
2. ↑ Osako changes to 1. FC Köln , fc-koeln.de from June 5, 2014
3. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/spieltag/1-bundesliga/2014-15/2/2407243/spielanalyse_vfb-stuttgart-11_1-fc-koeln-16.html
4. ↑ Fix! Osako moves to Werder . Weser Kurier on May 16, 2018
5. ↑ Stadium in Japan named after Yuya Osako , deichstube.de from June 20, 2019