Yūki Nagasato

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Yūki Nagasato
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Nagasato with Frankfurt in 2016
Personal information
Birth name Yūki Nagasato
Date of birth (1987-07-15) 15 July 1987 (age 34)
Place of birth Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
Racing Louisville
Number 17
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2009 Nippon TV Beleza 110 (69)
2010–2013 Turbine Potsdam 71 (48)
2013–2014 Chelsea 18 (5)
2015 Wolfsburg 9 (4)
2015–2017 Frankfurt 35 (8)
2017–2020 Chicago Red Stars 56 (13)
2018–2019Brisbane Roar (loan) 11 (4)
2020 → Hayabusa Eleven (loan)
2021– Racing Louisville 15 (1)
National team
2004–2016 Japan 132 (58)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 September 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:36, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Yūki Nagasato (永里 優季, Nagasato Yūki, formerly Yūki Ōgimi; born 15 July 1987) is a Japanese footballer who plays as a striker for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Racing Louisville FC. She is the first female footballer to play for the first-team of a Japanese men's club.

Nagasato represented Japan internationally between 2004 and 2016, scoring 58 goals in 132 caps.[2] She has won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011, and came second in 2015.

Club career[]

Nagasato was born in Atsugi on 15 July 1987. In 2001, she was promoted to Nippon TV Beleza from her youth team. In the 2002 season, she debuted in L.League. She became one of the division's top scorers in 2006 season. She also won the league championship 6 times (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008).

In 2010, Nagasato moved to Turbine Potsdam in Germany, where she won the Bundesliga's leading goal-scorer award. She also won the UEFA Champions League with that team. In 2013, she transferred to the English FA WSL club Chelsea.[3]

She joined Wolfsburg in early 2015 to play in a stronger league for the 2015 World Cup.[4] In August 2015, Nagasato joined UEFA Champions League 2015 winners Frankfurt.[5]

On 24 May 2017 it was announced that she had signed with the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), she appeared in only 6 games in 2017 due to injury.[6] In 2018 she was named Player of the Week for week 10 [7]

In October 2018, Nagasato signed with Brisbane Roar on loan for the 2018–19 W-League season.[8]

On 10 September 2020, Nagasato made history by becoming the first woman to play for Hayabusa Eleven, a men's team in the Kanagawa Prefecture League; she joined on loan until prior to the beginning of the 2021 NWSL season.[9]

On 26 October 2020, newly-formed club Racing Louisville FC announced Nagasato as one of their first signings for the 2021 National Women's Soccer League season.[10]

International career[]

In April 2004, Nagasato was selected Japan national team for 2004 Summer Olympics qualification. At this competition, on 22 April, she debuted against Thailand. She was also part of Japan's 2008 Summer Olympic team and 2007 World Cup.[11][12] Nagasato was part of the Japan squad that won the 2011 World Cup. She played as a substitute in the final against the United States. The game went to penalties and Nagasato had her penalty saved by Hope Solo, but Japan still emerged victorious.[13]

Since 2016, she wore the number 10 shirt for Japan, after Homare Sawa retired at 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament.[14] After the tournament, new Japan's manager Asako Takakura gave the number 10 to Mizuho Sakaguchi and Nagasato wore the number 9.[15]

Personal life[]

Nagasato's brother Genki is a professional footballer, and her younger sister Asano also played for Turbine Potsdam.

Nagasato married in July 2011[16] and changed her registered name from Nagasato to Ōgimi before the 2012 Summer Olympics. Upon her divorce in 2016, she re-assumed her maiden name.

Career statistics[]

Club[]

Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Nippon TV Beleza 2001 0 0 - -
2002 2 0 - - 2 0
2003 0 0 2 0 - - 2 0
2004 13 3 - - 13 3
2005 21 18 5 6 - - 26 24
2006 16 18 3 2 - - 19 20
2007 18 14 4 1 2 3 - 24 18
2008 20 9 3 2 - - 23 11
2009 20 7 4 5 - - 24 12
Total 110 69 21 16 2 3 - 133 88
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 2009–10 10 6 1 0 - 5 2 16 8
2010–11 21 10 5 6 1 3 8 9 35 28
2011–12 19 13 2 2 6 7 27 22
2012–13 22 18 5 2 4 2 31 22
Total 72 47 13 10 1 3 23 20 109 80
Chelsea 2013 5 0 0 0 0 0 - 5 0
2014 13 5 3 1 4 1 - 20 7
Total 18 5 3 1 4 1 - 25 7
Wolfsburg 2014–15 9 5 2 1 - 4 0 15 6
1. FFC Frankfurt 2015–16 16 5 2 3 - 5 1 23 9
2015–16 19 3 3 1 - 0 0 22 4
Total 35 8 5 4 - 5 1 45 13
Chicago Red Stars 2017 6 1 - - - 6 1
2018 23 4 - - - 23 4
Total 29 5 - - - 29 5
Brisbane Roar 2018-19 11 4 - - - 11 4
Chicago Red Stars 2019 24 8 - - - 24 8
Career total 308 151 44 33 7 7 32 21 391 212

International[]

Appearances and goals by national team and year[17][18]
National team Year Apps Goals
Japan 2004 1 0
2005 9 6
2006 13 9
2007 12 4
2008 17 9
2009 3 0
2010 3 1
2011 17 3
2012 16 9
2013 12 6
2014 9 5
2015 13 3
2016 7 3
Total 132 58

Honours[]

Club[]

Nippon TV Beleza

1. FFC Turbine Potsdam

VfL Wolfsburg

International[]

Japan

Individual[]

Performances

  • L.League top-goalscorer: 2006
  • L-League Best Eleven: 2005, 2006
  • Bundesliga top-goalscorer: 2013

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. ^ Profile at Japan Football Association website
  3. ^ "Chelsea Sign World Cup Winner". She Kicks. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 12 July 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  4. ^ http://www.waz-online.de/Sport/VfL-Frauenfussball/Og. imi-Der-VfL-holt-die-Weltmeisterin-sofort
  5. ^ "Yuki Ogimi verlässt VfL". wolfsburg.de. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Chicago Signs Japanese International Yuki Nagasato". chicagoredstars.com. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Yuki Nagasato Voted NWSL Player of the Week". 5 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  8. ^ "Japanese superstar Nagasato heads for Brisbane". 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Yuki Nagasato Makes History with Loan to Hayabusa Eleven". Chicago Red Stars. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  10. ^ "First players announced!". www.newschain.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  11. ^ "YUKI OGIMI JOINS CHELSEA LADIES FC". www.fawsl.com. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  12. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yuki Nagasato-Ogimi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  13. ^ "USA v Japan - as it happened". Guardian. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  14. ^ "Ogimi receives No. 10 shirt before final Olympic qualifiers". The Japan Times Online. 25 February 2016. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  15. ^ Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
  16. ^ On July 27, 2011 at Official site (in Japanese)
  17. ^ Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
  18. ^ List of match in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)

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