Yasuo Manaka

Yasuo Manaka
Personnel
birthday	January 31, 1971
place of birth	Ibaraki Prefecture ,  Japan
size	170 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1986-1988	Iwai Nishi High School
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1989-1998	Kashima Antlers	135 (33)
1999-2003	Cerezo Osaka	106 (26)
2003-2004	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	20 0(2)
2004	Yokohama FC	13 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Yasuo Manaka ( Japanese 眞 中 靖夫 , Manaka Yasuo ; born January 31, 1971 in Ibaraki Prefecture ) is a former Japanese football player .

Career

Manaka learned to play soccer on the school team at Iwai Nishi High School . He signed his first contract with Sumitomo Metal in 1989 . The club played in the second highest league in the country, the Japan Soccer League Division 2. With the founding of the professional league J.League in 1992 and the associated reorganization of Japanese football, Sumitomo Metal became the Kashima Antlers . With the club he became Japanese champions in 1996 and 1998 . In 1997 he won the J.League Cup and the Kaiserpokal with the club . For the club he completed 135 games. In 1999 he moved to league rivals Cerezo Osaka . In 2001 he reached the final of the Imperial Cup. At the end of the 2001 season, the club was relegated to the J2 League . In 2002 he was runner-up with the club in the J2 League and was promoted to the J1 League . For the club he completed 106 games. In August 2003 he moved to the second division club Sanfrecce Hiroshima . In 2003 he was runner-up in the J2 League with this club and was promoted to the J1 League. In July 2004 he moved to the second division Yokohama FC . At the end of 2004 he ended his career as a soccer player.

successes

Kashima Antlers

• J1 League

Champion: 1996, 1998

Runner-up: 1993, 1997

• J.League Cup

Winner: 1997

• Imperial Cup

Winner: 1997

Finalist: 1993

Cerezo Osaka

• Imperial Cup

Finalist: 2001, 2003

Web links

• Yasuo Manaka in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Yasuo Manaka in the J.League Data Site database (Japanese)