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Maya Yoshida Personal information Full name Maya Yoshida Date of birth 24 August 1988 Place of birth Nagasaki, Japan Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) Playing position Centre back Club information Current club VVV-Venlo Number 3 Youth career 2001–2006 Nagoya Grampus Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2007–2009 Nagoya Grampus 71 (5) 2010– VVV-Venlo 25 (2) National team‡ 2008 Japan U23 4 (0) 2010– Japan 9 (2) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 May 2011.
† Appearances (Goals).
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 6 June 2011Maya Yoshida (吉田 麻也 Yoshida Maya , born August 24, 1988 in Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese football player. He is a centre back defender and currently plays for Dutch side VVV-Venlo.
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Career
Yoshida had been a defensive midfielder when playing for Grampus's youth team, but was converted to a centre back after promotion to its top team in 2007. In the 2008 season, he was in the starting lineup for most of the league matches with his Serbian teammate Miloš Bajalica. He earned a call-up for Japan's U-23 team in April 2008 and was a member of the Japan team for the 2008 Summer Olympic finals.[1] He scored Nagoya Grampus's historical first goal in the AFC Champions League in the game against Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i on March 10, 2009. He was called-up for the national team for the game against Yemen in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification. In December 2009, it was announced that he had transferred to Dutch club VVV-Venlo.[2] He scored a bicycle kick goal for VVV-Venlo off a corner kick on September 11, 2011 against PSV Eindhoven. The match ended in a 3-3 draw.
He made his full international debut for Japan on January 6, 2010 in a 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualifier against Yemen.
Career statistics
Club
Club Season League Cup1 League Cup2 Continental3 Other4 Total Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Nagoya Grampus 2007 19 0 2 1 3 0 - - 24 1 2008 22 1 3 1 4 0 - - 29 2 2009 30 4 6 1 1 1 11 2 - 48 8 Total 71 5 11 3 8 1 11 2 - 101 11 VVV-Venlo 2009–10 0 0 - - - - 0 0 2010–11 20 0 0 0 - - 4 0 24 0 2011–12 10 2 - - 10 2 Total 30 2 0 0 - - 4 0 34 2 Career total 101 7 11 3 8 1 11 2 4 0 135 13 1Includes Emperor's Cup and KNVB Cup.
2Includes J. League Cup.
3Includes AFC Champions League.
4Includes Eredivisie Playoffs.
International
- As of 7 June 2011
National team Year Apps Goals Japan U23 2008 4 0 Total 10 9 Japan 2010 1 0 2011 11 2 Total 12 2 International appearances and goals # Date Venue Opponent Result Goal Competition 2008 12 June National Stadium Tokyo, Tokyo Cameroon U-23 0–0 0 Friendly / Japan U23 24 July Home's Stadium Kobe, Kobe Australia U23 2–1 0 Friendly / Japan U23 27 July National Stadium Tokyo, Tokyo Argentina U23 1–2 0 Friendly / Japan U23 13 August Shenyang Olympic Stadium, Shenyang Netherlands U23 0–1 0 2008 Summer Olympics / Japan U23 2010 6 January Ali Muhesen Stadium, Sana'a Yemen 3–2 0 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification / Japan 2011 9 January Qatar SC Stadium, Doha Jordan 1–1 1 2011 AFC Asian Cup / Japan 13 January Qatar SC Stadium, Doha Syria 2–1 0 2011 AFC Asian Cup / Japan 17 January Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan Saudi Arabia 5–0 0 2011 AFC Asian Cup / Japan 21 January Al-Gharafa Stadium, Doha Qatar 3–2 0 2011 AFC Asian Cup / Japan 29 January Khalifa International Stadium, Doha Australia 1–0 0 2011 AFC Asian Cup / Japan 7 June International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama Czech Republic 0–0 0 2011 Kirin Cup / Japan Awards and honours
Japan
References
- ^ "Maya Yoshida Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yo/maya-yoshida-1.html. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ^ Nagoya's Yoshida to join Venlo, wsn.com, December 28, 2009
- ^ http://aus.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/maya-yoshida/2/
- ^ Japan - Maya Yoshida - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway
External links
- Maya Yoshida – FIFA competition record
- Maya Yoshida at National-Football-Teams.com
- Maya Yoshida at Nagoya Grampus official site (2009) (Japanese)
Japan Squad Japan squad – 2008 Summer Olympics Japan squad – 2011 AFC Asian Cup Champions (4th Title) 1 Kawashima • 2 Inoha • 3 Iwamasa • 4 Konno • 5 Nagatomo • 6 Uchida • 7 Endō • 8 Matsui • 9 Okazaki • 10 Kagawa • 11 Maeda • 12 Moriwaki • 13 Hosogai • 14 Fujimoto • 15 T. Honda • 16 Kashiwagi • 17 Hasebe (c) • 18 K. Honda • 19 Lee • 20 Nagata • 21 Nishikawa • 22 Yoshida • 23 Gonda • Coach: ZaccheroniVVV-Venlo – current squad 1 Gentenaar · 2 Timisela · 3 Yoshida · 4 Mei · 5 Fleuren · 6 Leemans · 7 Musa · 8 Meeuwis · 11 Linssen · 12 de Regt · 14 Uchebo · 15 Nkume · 16 de Vogt · 17 Kruijsen · 18 Maguire · 21 Dadda · 22 Udegbe · 24 Cullen · 25 Verbeek · 26 Molhoek · 27 Gülner · 28 van den Ban · 29 Khalouta · 30 Wildschut · Manager: de Boeck
Categories:- 1988 births
- Living people
- Japanese footballers
- Nagoya Grampus Eight players
- VVV-Venlo players
- J. League players
- Eredivisie players
- Japan international footballers
- Olympic footballers of Japan
- Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- 2011 AFC Asian Cup players
- AFC Asian Cup-winning players
- Japanese expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
- Japanese expatriates in the Netherlands
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