Kota Sakurai

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Kota Sakurai
Personal information
Full name Kota Sakurai
Date of birth (1999-05-26) May 26, 1999 (age 22)
Place of birth Yokohama, Japan
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2015–2017 Toronto FC
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017– Dartmouth Big Green 30 (2)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Toronto FC III 40 (3)
2016 Toronto FC II 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 20, 2019

Kota Sakurai (born May 26, 1999) is a Japanese professional footballer.

Career[]

A product of the TFC Academy, Sakurai regularly featured for the club during their League1 Ontario[1][2][3] and Premier Development League[4] campaigns.

With a number of Toronto FC II players unavailable for upcoming fixtures, Sakurai was called up to the squad in June 2016.[5] He made his professional debut on July 2, 2016, appearing for 14 minutes in a 3-0 defeat to Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL.[6] In doing so, he became the first ever Japanese player to feature competitively Toronto FC II.

Sakurai enrolled at Dartmouth College in 2017.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "TFC III stats 2016". League1 Ontario.
  2. ^ "TFC III Stats 2017". League1 Ontario.
  3. ^ "TFC III Stats 2018". League1 Ontario.
  4. ^ "TFC Academy Stats 2016". USL League Two.
  5. ^ Crawford, Colin (July 2, 2016). "Match Report: Wilmington Hammerheads 3 - 0 TFC II". Toronto FC.
  6. ^ "Kota Sakurai". Retrieved 2016-07-03.
  7. ^ "Kota Sakurai". Retrieved 2019-10-20.


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