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{{Infobox football biography
|name=Akihiro Nishimura
|image=
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|fullname=Akihiro Nishimura
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1958|8|8}}
|birth_place=[[Osaka Prefecture|Osaka]], [[Japan]]
|death_date=
|death_place=
|height={{Height|m=1.75}}
|position=[[Midfielder]]
|currentclub=
|clubnumber=
|youthyears1=1974–1976|youthclubs1=[[Hokuyo High School]]
|youthyears2=1977–1980|youthclubs2=[[Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences]]
|years1=1981–1991|clubs1=[[Cerezo Osaka|Yammer Diesel]]|caps1=148|goals1=3
|totalcaps=148|totalgoals=3
|nationalyears1=1980–1988|nationalteam1=[[Japan national football team|Japan]]|nationalcaps1=49|nationalgoals1=2
|manageryears1=1999–2001|managerclubs1=[[Japan national under-20 football team|Japan U-20]]
|manageryears2=2001–2003|managerclubs2=[[Cerezo Osaka]]
|manageryears3=2004|managerclubs3=[[Kyoto Sanga FC|Kyoto Purple Sanga]]
|medaltemplates=
{{Medal|Team|[[Cerezo Osaka|Yanmar Diesel]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[JSL Cup]]|1983}}
{{Medal|W|[[JSL Cup]]|1984}}
{{Medal|RU|[[JSL Cup]]|1982}}
{{Medal|RU|[[Emperor's Cup]]|1983}}
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Akihiro Nishimura'''|西村 昭宏|Nishimura Akihiro|born August 8, 1958}} is a former [[Japan]]ese [[Association football|football]] player and manager. He played for the [[Japan national football team|Japan national team]].

==Biography==
Nishimura was born in [[Osaka Prefecture]] on August 8, 1958. After graduating from [[Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences]], he joined his local club [[Cerezo Osaka|Yammer Diesel]] in 1981. The club won 1983 and 1984 [[JSL Cup]]. He retired in 1991. He played 148 games and scored 3 goals in the league. He was selected Best Eleven in 1982.

On June 18, 1980, when Nishimura was an [[Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences]] student, he debuted for the [[Japan national football team|Japan national team]] against [[Hong Kong national football team|Hong Kong]]. He played at [[Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Summer Olympics]] qualification, [[1986 FIFA World Cup|1986 World Cup]] qualification, [[Football at the 1982 Asian Games|1982 Asian Games]] and [[Football at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Summer Olympics]] qualification. He played 49 games and scored 2 goals for Japan until 1988.

After retirement, Nishimura started coaching career at [[Gamba Osaka|Matsushita Electric]] (later ''Gamba Osaka'') in 1991. In 1999, he became a manager for the [[Japan national under-20 football team|Japan U-20 national team]]. He managed U-20 Japan at the [[2001 FIFA World Youth Championship|2001 World Youth Championship]] in [[Argentina]]. In September 2001, he signed with [[Cerezo Osaka]] and became an assistant coach. In December, he became a manager as [[João Carlos]] successor and he led the club to won the 2nd place in 2001 [[Emperor's Cup]]. In October 2003, he was sacked. In 2004, he signed with [[Kyoto Sanga FC|Kyoto Purple Sanga]]. He was sacked in June.

==Statistics==
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{{Football player club statistics 1|NNN}}
{{Football player club statistics 2|JPN|NNN}}
|-
|1981||rowspan="10"|[[Cerezo Osaka|Yammer Diesel]]||rowspan="10"|[[Japan Soccer League|JSL Division 1]]||18||0
|-
|1982||14||1
|-
|1983||12||0
|-
|1984||17||0
|-
|1985/86||21||1
|-
|1986/87||21||0
|-
|1987/88||5||0
|-
|1988/89||10||0
|-
|1989/90||15||1
|-
|1990/91||15||0
{{Football player club statistics 3|1|JPN}}148||3
{{Football player club statistics 5}}148||3
|}
<ref>[http://www.jfootball-db.com/en/players/nishimura_akihiro.html Japan National Football Team Database]</ref>
{{Football player national team statistics|JPN}}
|-
|1980||1||0
|-
|1981||13||0
|-
|1982||2||0
|-
|1983||10||0
|-
|1984||1||0
|-
|1985||8||2
|-
|1986||5||0
|-
|1987||8||0
|-
|1988||1||0
|-
!Total||49||2
|}

==References==
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==Other websites==
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[[Category:1958 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Footballers from Osaka Prefecture]]
[[Category:Japan international footballers]]
[[Category:Japanese football managers]]
[[Category:Japan Soccer League players]]
[[Category:Cerezo Osaka players]]