Yasuhiko Okudera

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Yasuhiko Okudera
Personnel
birthday March 12, 1952
place of birth Kazuno ,  Japan
size 177 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1970-1977 Furukawa Electric 100 0(36)
1977-1980 1. FC Cologne 075 0(15)
1980-1981 Hertha BSC 025 (8) 00
1981-1986 Werder Bremen 159 0(11)
1986-1988 Furukawa Electric 043 (3) 00
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1972-1987 Japan 032 (9) 00
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996 JEF United Ichihara
1 Only league games are given.

Yasuhiko Okudera ( Japanese 奥 寺 康 彦 Okudera Yasuhiko ; born March 12, 1952 in Kazuno , Akita Prefecture ) is a former Japanese football player and coach.

Career

The midfielder began his career in Japan in 1970 with the Furukawa Electric Soccer Club , with which he won the championship in 1976 and the JSL Cup in 1977. When Okudera became the first player from Japan to move to the Bundesliga in July 1977 and joined the 1. FC Köln squad , he was rather ridiculed. But he quickly prevailed in Cologne under coach Hennes Weisweiler and became a regular player. In the first year he became German champion and DFB cup winner . Okudera's diving header, with which he scored the 0-5 final score on April 29, 1978 on the last Bundesliga matchday of the Cologne championship season 1977/78 in the away game at FC St. Pauli , was voted goal of the month .

In 1981 Otto Rehhagel brought him to Werder Bremen from Hertha BSC . As a regular player in Bremen, he was German runner-up three times.

By the end of his career, Okudera played a total of 234 times in the Bundesliga and scored 26 goals. In the 2nd Bundesliga he came to 25 appearances and eight goals. In 1986 he returned to Japan to Furukawa Electric Soccer Club, where he ended his active career in 1988.

On July 12, 1972 Okudera made his debut in the Japanese national team in the game against the Khmer Republic, what is now Cambodia. Japan's team won 4-1 in Kuala Lumpur. He came to 32 missions for the Japanese national team by 1988, in which he scored 9 goals.

Today he is president of the Japanese Yokohama FC and also a television commentator. He was also chairman of the English second division club Plymouth Argyle .

statistics

  • DFB Cup
    • 1. FC Köln: 15 games, 2 goals

successes

literature

Oliver Mayer: Okudera, Kagawa & Co. - Japanese in the Bundesliga. In: Studies on German Literature and Language (Japanese Society for German Studies, Tokai Section). No. 44, 2012, pp. 97-105. Full text of the article.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goal of the Month April 1978 on sportschau.de
personal data
SURNAME Okudera, Yasuhiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 奥 寺 康 彦 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kazuno , Akita Prefecture