Shigeru Sakurai
Shigeru Sakurai (桜井 繁, Sakurai Shigeru, born June 29, 1979) is a former Japanese football player.
| Personal information | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Shigeru Sakurai | |||||||||
| Date of birth | June 29, 1979 | |||||||||
| Place of birth | Ibaraki, Japan | |||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||
| Playing position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Sakai High School | |||||||||
| 1998–2001 | Komazawa University | |||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||
| 2002–2006 | Montedio Yamagata | 133 | (0) | |||||||
| 2007–2008 | Ventforet Kofu | 30 | (0) | |||||||
| 2009–2014 | Vegalta Sendai | 1 | (0) | |||||||
| 2015 | Tochigi SC | 20 | (0) | |||||||
| Total | 184 | (0) | ||||||||
Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | ||||||||||
Playing career
Sakurai was born in Ibaraki Prefecture on June 29, 1979. After graduating from Komazawa University, he joined J2 League club Montedio Yamagata in 2002. He became a regular goalkeeper in 2003. However he lost his position behind Kenta Shimizu in 2006. In 2007, he moved to J1 League club Ventforet Kofu. However he could hardly play in the match behind Kensaku Abe and Tatsuya Tsuruta and Ventforet was relegated to J2 end of 2007 season. In 2008, he became a regular goalkeeper. In 2009, he moved to J2 club Vegalta Sendai. Although Vegalta was promoted to J1 end of 2010 season, he could hardly play in the match behind Takuto Hayashi and Kentaro Seki until 2014. In 2015, he moved to J2 club Tochigi SC.[1] He played many matches while battling with Akihiko Takeshige for the position. However Tochigi finished at the bottom place in 2015 season and was relegated to J3 League. He retired end of 2015 season.
Club statistics
| Club performance | 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 | ||||||
| 2002 | Montedio Yamagata | J2 League | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 5 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 44 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | 47 | 0 | |||
| 2004 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | 42 | 0 | |||
| 2005 | 40 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 41 | 0 | |||
| 2006 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 6 | 0 | |||
| Total | 133 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 141 | 0 | ||
| 2007 | Ventforet Kofu | J1 League | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2008 | J2 League | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 29 | 0 | ||
| Total | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 0 | ||
| 2009 | Vegalta Sendai | J2 League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | |
| 2010 | J1 League | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 2015 | Tochigi SC | J2 League | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 21 | 0 | |
| Total | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | 21 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 184 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 205 | 0 | ||
References
- Vegalta Sendai(in Japanese)
