Tsuyoshi Kitazawa

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
	Kitazawa in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
Date of birth	August 10, 1968 (age 54)
Place of birth	Machida, Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1984–1986	Shutoku High School
Senior career*
Years	Team
1987–1991	Honda
1991–2002	Tokyo Verdy
Total
National team
1989	Japan Futsal
1991–1999	Japan
Honours
Tokyo Verdy
Representing Japan
AFC Asian Cup
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (北澤豪, Kitazawa Tsuyoshi, born August 10, 1968) is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography[change | change source]

Kitazawa was born in Machida on August 10, 1968. After graduating from Shutoku High School, he joined Japan Soccer League club Honda in 1987. He was the top scorer of the league in the 1990/91 season. He moved to Yomiuri (later Verdy Kawasaki, Tokyo Verdy) in 1991. The club won the league champions in 1991/92 and 1991 JSL Cup. In 1992, Japan Soccer League was folded and the club joined new league, J1 League. Kitazawa, together with his teammates Kazuyoshi Miura, Ruy Ramos, Nobuhiro Takeda, Tetsuji Hashiratani and Bismarck made in the early 1990s the golden era of Verdy who won the J1 League championship (1993 and 1994) and J.League Cup (1992, 1993, and 1994). He finished his playing career as a Verdy player in 2002.

Kitazawa was capped 58 times and scored 3 goals for the Japan national team between 1991 and 1999. He made his international debut on June 2, 1991 in a friendly against Thailand, under national manager Kenzo Yokoyama. He was a member of the Japan team for the 1992 Asian Cup that Japan won. He took part in Japan's unsuccessful campaign to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. He was a member of the Asian final qualification stage that was held centrally in Doha and played two games. He was on the bench when the Iraqi's injury-time equaliser dashed Japan's qualification hope in the last qualifier, in the match that the Japanese fans now remember as the "Agony of Doha" (ドーハの悲劇). Kitazawa was short-listed for the 1998 World Cup, but national manager Takeshi Okada dropped him along with Kazuyoshi Miura and Daisuke Ichikawa at the final training camp in Nyon, Switzerland.

Kitazawa represented Japan national futsal team in the 1989 Futsal World Championship hosted by the Netherlands.

Statistics[change | change source]

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Club statistics			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Japan			League		Emperor's Cup		J.League Cup		Total
1987/88	Honda	JSL Division 1	0	0			0	0	0	0
1988/89			7	0			0	0	7	0
1989/90			22	4			0	0	22	4
1990/91			22	10			1	0	23	10
1991/92	Yomiuri	JSL Division 1	20	2	5	0	4	1	29	3
1992	Verdy Kawasaki	J1 League	-		2	2	11	1	13	3
1993			35	6	3	2	1	1	39	9
1994			40	9	2	1	3	1	45	11
1995			40	11	3	0	-		43	11
1996			28	4	5	2	15	5	48	11
1997			29	1	2	0	0	0	31	1
1998			34	5	3	0	0	0	37	5
1999			28	4	3	2	3	1	34	7
2000			4	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
2001	Tokyo Verdy	J1 League	23	0	0	0	0	0	23	0
2002	Tokyo Verdy	J1 League	4	1	0	0	2	0	6	1
Country	Japan		336	57	28	9	41	10	405	76
Total			336	57	28	9	41	10	405	76