Hotaru Yamaguchi
Hotaru Yamaguchi (山口 蛍, Yamaguchi Hotaru, born October 6, 1990) is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Hotaru Yamaguchi | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 6 October 1990 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Nabari, Mie, Japan | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defensive midfielder | |||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Vissel Kobe | |||||||||||||
Number | 96 | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
2003–2008 | Cerezo Osaka | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
2009–2015 | Cerezo Osaka | 140 | (11) | |||||||||||
2016 | Hannover 96 | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
2016–2018 | Cerezo Osaka | 84 | (3) | |||||||||||
2019– | Vissel Kobe | 165 | (20) | |||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||
2010–2012 | Japan U23 | 29 | (1) | |||||||||||
2013–2019 | Japan | 48 | (3) | |||||||||||
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 November 2019 |
Biography
changeYamaguchi was born in Nabari on October 6, 1990. He joined J2 League club Cerezo Osaka from their youth team in 2009. Cerezo was promoted to J1 League from 2010. He played many matches as defensive midfielder from 2011. In 2013, he played all 34 matches and was selected Best Eleven award. However Cerezo was relegated to J2 end of the 2014 season. In January 2016, he moved to German Bundesliga club Hannover. However he could not play many matches and Hannover was relegated to 2. Bundesliga end of the 2015/16 season. In summer 2016, he returned to Cerezo and Cerezo was promoted to J1 end of the 2016 season. In 2017, Cerezo won the champions in the J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup. He was also selected for theBest Eleven award. In 2019, he moved to Vissel Kobe. Vissel won the champions in the 2019 Emperor's Cup which is first major title in the club history.
In July 2012, Yamaguchi was selected for the Japan U-23 national team for 2012 Summer Olympics. He played all 6 matches as defensive midfielder and Japan got fourth place. In July 2013, he was selected for the Japan national team for 2013 East Asian Cup. At this tournament, he debuted against China on July 21. In 2014, he was selected for Japan in the 2014 World Cup and played all 3 matches. In 2018, he played at the 2018 World Cup and Japan qualified to the knockout stage.
Career statistics
changeClub
change- As of 17 March 2021[2]
Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other[a] | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Cerezo Osaka | 2009 | J2 League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
2010 | J1 League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 0 | |||
2011 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 23 | 1 | |||
2012 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | – | – | 40 | 4 | ||||
2013 | 34 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | – | – | 42 | 7 | ||||
2014 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | – | 28 | 1 | |||
2015 | J2 League | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | 37 | 1 | |||
2016 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | 22 | 1 | ||||
2017 | J1 League | 32 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 39 | 3 | |||
2018 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 39 | 0 | |||
Total | 226 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 279 | 18 | ||
Hannover 96 | 2015–16 | Bundesliga | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | |||
Vissel Kobe | 2019 | J1 League | 34 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | 41 | 6 | ||
2020 | 34 | 6 | – | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | – | 42 | 7 | ||||
2021 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 6 | 0 | ||||
Total | 73 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 13 | ||
Career total | 305 | 21 | 21 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 374 | 31 |
- ↑ Appearances in J2 Play-offs
International
change- As of 19 November 2019[3]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Japan | 2013 | 8 | 0 |
2014 | 7 | 0 | |
2015 | 9 | 1 | |
2016 | 6 | 1 | |
2017 | 8 | 0 | |
2018 | 7 | 0 | |
2019 | 3 | 1 | |
Total | 48 | 3 |
- Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Yamaguchi goal.
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 5 August 2015 | Wuhan Sports Center Stadium, Wuhan, China | South Korea | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2015 EAFF East Asian Cup |
2 | 6 October 2016 | Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Japan | Iraq | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
3 | 19 November 2019 | Panasonic Stadium Suita, Suita, Japan | Venezuela | 1–4 | 1–4 | 2019 Kirin Challenge Cup |
Honours
changeCerezo Osaka
Vissel Kobe
Japan
Japan U-23
Individual
References
change- ↑ "National Team Squad". jfa.or.jp. Japan Football Association. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ↑ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2017 J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 (NSK MOOK)", 8 February 2017, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411420 (p. 145 out of 289)
- ↑ Japan National Football Team Database(in Japanese)
- ↑ "Yamaguchi, Hotaru". National Football Teams. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ↑ "神戸が悲願の初優勝!井出、武藤のゴールで名古屋に競り勝つ【速報:明治安田J1第33節】". J.League. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
- ↑ "Andrés Iniesta skippers Vissel Kobe to first trophy in David Villa's final match". AS. 1 January 2020. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ↑ "Andres Iniesta lifts Japan Super Cup after nine straight pen misses". ESPN. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ↑ "2023年Jリーグベスト11は神戸と浦和が最多タイ4名! 大迫勇也や西川周作ら". GOAL. Retrieved December 5, 2023.
Other websites
change- Hotaru Yamaguchi at Soccerway.com
- Hotaru Yamaguchi at WorldFootball.net
- Hotaru Yamaguchi at National-Football-Teams.com
- Hotaru Yamaguchi at kicker (in German)
- Hotaru Yamaguchi at FBref.com