Yōichirō Kakitani

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Yōichirō Kakitani
Personnel
birthday January 3, 1990
place of birth Osaka ,  Japan
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
1994-2005 Cerezo Osaka
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2014 Cerezo Osaka 129 (37)
2009-2011 →  Tokushima Vortis  (loan) 97 (14)
2014-2016 FC Basel 18 0(4)
2016– Cerezo Osaka 91 (16)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2005-2007 Japan U-17 9 0(6)
2007-2009 Japan U-22 8 0(3)
2013-2014 Japan 18 0(5)
1 Only league games are given.
As of October 9, 2019

Yōichirō Kakitani ( Japanese 柿 谷 曜 一 ​​朗 , Kakitani Yōichirō ; born January 3, 1990 in Osaka , Japan ) is a Japanese football player.

Career

In Japan

At the age of four, Kakitani joined the Cerezo Osaka football school and went through some youth departments there until he received his first professional contract from the club mentioned in 2006. He was loaned to Tokushima Vortis from 2009 to 2011 , before returning to Osaka in 2012 and making a definitive entry into the Cerezo Osaka first-team squad.

With Cerezo Osaka he played in the seasons 2005/06, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 in the 1st Japanese division and in the years 2007/08, 2008/09 in the 2nd Japanese division , Tokushima Vortis currently a second division officer from Kakitani.

In a total of 129 league games, the center forward scored 37 goals for Cerezo Osaka. He was nominated for the Asian Young Footballer of the Year award in 2006.

At FC Basel

In July 2014, Kakitani moved to the Swiss Super League club FC Basel , where he signed a four-year contract until June 30, 2018. He made his debut for FC Basel on August 2, 2014 in the third game of the season away from FC Thun , when he came on for Mohamed Elneny in the 77th minute . In his second game on August 9, 2014, in a 4-1 win against FC Zurich , he scored his first goal in the 74th minute to make it 3-1.

The 2014/15 season was very successful for FC Basel, but less so for Kakitani under the new coach Paulo Sousa . The team finished the soccer championship 2014/15 for the 18th time as champions (for the 6th time in a row) with 12 points ahead of the 2nd placed BSC Young Boys and 25 points ahead of 3rd placed FC Zurich . Basel was repeatedly in the final of the Swiss Cup , which was lost to FC Sion 0: 3. In the 2014/15 Champions League season , Basel advanced to the round of 16. During the 2014/15 season, FC Basel played a total of 65 games (36 championship, 6 cups, 8 Champions League and 15 test games). Under coach Sousa, Kakitani only made 28 appearances, 14 of them in the Super League, 3 in the Cup, 3 in the Champions League, and he often found himself on the bench. However, he had 8 appearances in the friendly matches. He scored 11 goals (3 championship, 4 cup and 4 in the test matches).

In the national team

In 2006, Kakitani won the U-17 AFC Asia Cup with the Japanese U-17 national team and was voted Most Valuable Player of the Tournament with four goals. In 2007 he took part in the U17 World Cup in South Korea and scored two goals in three games. He also drew attention to himself at the 2007 U17 World Cup with a goal from 50 meters away.

successes

FC Basel

Cerezo Osaka

Winner: 2018

National team

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to FC Basel 1893, Yoichiro Kakitani , FCB.ch from 7 July 2014
  2. ↑ FC Basel outclassed FC Zurich , Basler Zeitung of August 9, 2014
  3. ↑ SFV: Swiss Cup - Würth Swiss Cup / Final - 07.06.2015 . SFV. 2015. Accessed June 7, 2015.
  4. ↑ For all results see here
  5. ↑ Josef Zindel: red blue: Yearbook 2015/2016 season . FC Basel Marketing AG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Kakitani, Yōichirō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 柿 谷 曜 一 ​​朗 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka , Japan