Yukari Kinga
| Yukari Kinga | ||
.jpg) Kinga (2014)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | May 2, 1984 | |
| place of birth | Yokohama , Japan | |
| size | 161 cm | |
| position | Defense | |
| Women | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003-2010 | NTV Beleza | 147 (30) |
| 2011-2013 | INAC Kobe Leonessa | |
| 2014 | Arsenal LFC | 12 (0) |
| 2015– | INAC Kobe Leonessa | |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2005– | Japan | 100 (5) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of January 1, 2015 2 As of March 9, 2016 |
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Yukari Kinga ( Japanese 近 賀 ゆ か り , Kinga Yukari ; born May 2, 1984 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese national soccer player .
Club career
Yukari Kinga spent seven seasons at NTV Beleza before running for INAC Kobe Leonessa from 2011 to 2013 . After a season with the English first division club Arsenal LFC , she returned to Kobe in January 2015.
National team
Kinga completed her first international match for the Japanese national team on March 29, 2005 against Australia . She scored her first goal for Japan on August 12, 2008 against Norway . She played all three games for Japan at the 5th Women's World Cup in 2007 as well as all six games at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 . At the 6th Women's World Cup in Germany in 2011 , she also played in all six games of the Japanese women's selection.
Kinga was also part of the Japanese squad for the London Olympics . She was in the starting line-up in all six games and played the full distance.
She was also nominated for the 2015 World Cup , but only used in the second group game against Cameroon .
At the Asian qualifying tournament for the 2016 Olympic Games , she played her 100th international match in the last game against North Korea, as did Mizuho Sakaguchi .
successes
- World champion at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 in Germany
- Vice World Champion 2015
- Silver medal at the 2012 Olympics
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kinga and Ohno return to INAC Kobe , arsenal.com (English). Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ↑ Yukari Kinga in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kinga, Yukari |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 近 賀 ゆ か り (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | japanese female soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yokohama , Japan |