Tsuyoshi Kitazawa

Japanese footballer and television commentator

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
北澤 豪

Personal information
Full name|  Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
Date of birth|  (1968-08-10) 10 August 1968 (age 56)
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|  Apps|  (Gls)
1987–1991|  Honda|  51|  (14)
1991–2002|  Tokyo Verdy|  265|  (41)
Total|  |  316|  (55)
International career
1989|  Japan Futsal|  |
1991–1999|  Japan|  58|  (3)

Medal record

Tokyo Verdy
Winner | Japan Soccer League | 1991/92
Winner | J1 League | 1993
Winner | J1 League | 1994
Runner-up | J1 League | 1995
Winner | JSL Cup | 1991
Winner | J.League Cup | 1992
Winner | J.League Cup | 1993
Winner | J.League Cup | 1994
Runner-up | J.League Cup | 1996
Winner | Emperor's Cup | 1996
Runner-up | Emperor's Cup | 1991
Runner-up | Emperor's Cup | 1992
Representing  Japan
AFC Asian Cup
| 1992 Japan |

*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (北澤 豪, Kitazawa Tsuyoshi, born 10 August 1968) is a former Japanese footballer who played for the Japan national team. He currently works on television as a football commentator.

## Club career

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When Kitazawa was a junior high student, he played for Yomiuri Junior Youth. After being rejected by the club to advance to the club's Youth team, he entered Shutoku High School and played for the school club. After graduating, he joined Japan Soccer League side Honda in 1987. He was the top scorer of the league in the 1990–91 season.

He moved to Yomiuri (later Verdy Kawasaki, now Tokyo Verdy) in 1991. 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.

## National team career

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Kitazawa was capped 58 times and scored 3 goals for the Japan national team between 1991 and 1999.[1] He made his international debut on 2 June 1991 in a friendly against Thailand in Yamagata Park Stadium, under national coach Kenzo Yokoyama. He was a member of the Japan team for the 1992 Asian Cup that Japan won. He scored his first international goal on 6 November 1992 in the semifinal against China at Hiroshima Stadium.

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 Qatar 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.

Kitazawa was short-listed for the 1998 World Cup, but national coach Takeshi Okada dropped him along with Kazuyoshi Miura and Daisuke Ichikawa at the final training camp in Nyon, Switzerland.

## Futsal career

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Kitazawa represented Japan national futsal team in the 1989 FIFA Futsal World Championship finals hosted by the Netherlands.[2]

## Career statistics

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### Club

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Club performance  | League  | Cup  | League Cup  | Total

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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
1988/89 | 7 | 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 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1
Total  | 336 | 57 | 28 | 9 | 41 | 10 | 405 | 76

### National team

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Japan national team

Year | Apps | Goals
1991 | 2 | 0
1992 | 11 | 1
1993 | 4 | 0
1994 | 7 | 1
1995 | 14 | 1
1996 | 5 | 0
1997 | 11 | 0
1998 | 3 | 0
1999 | 1 | 0
Total | 58 | 3

## Honours

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Japan national team

* AFC Asian Cup: 1992

## References

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1. ^ a b "KITAZAWA Tsuyoshi - Japan National Football Team Database". Japan National Football Team Database. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
2. ^ "Tsuyoshi KITAZAWA". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2018.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tsuyoshi Kitazawa.

* Tsuyoshi Kitazawa – FIFA competition record (archived)
* Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at National-Football-Teams.com
* Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at Japan National Football Team Database
* Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)

Awards for Tsuyoshi Kitazawa

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Japan Soccer League First Division top scorers

* 1965: Nomura
* 1966: Ogi
* 1967: Kimura
* 1968: Kamamoto
* 1969: Ochiai
* 1970: Kamamoto
* 1971: Kamamoto
* 1972: Matsunaga
* 1973: Matsunaga
* 1974: Kamamoto
* 1975: Kamamoto
* 1976: Kamamoto
* 1977: Carvalho
* 1978: Kamamoto / Carvalho
* 1979: Ramos
* 1980: Usui
* 1981: Yoshida
* 1982: Usui
* 1983: Ramos
* 1984: Totsuka
* 1985/86: Yoshida
* 1986/87: Matsuura
* 1987/88: Matsuura
* 1988/89: Adílson
* 1989/90: Renato
* 1990/91: Totsuka / Kitazawa / Renato
* 1991/92: Toninho

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1990–91 Japan Soccer League Team of the Year

* Shigetatsu Matsunaga
* Takumi Horiike
* Hisashi Kato
* Tetsuji Hashiratani
* Yasutoshi Miura
* Ruy Ramos
* Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
* Jorginho
* Renato
* Nobuhiro Takeda
* Kazuyoshi Miura

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1991–92 Japan Soccer League Team of the Year

* Shigetatsu Matsunaga
* Masami Ihara
* Tetsuji Hashiratani
* Takumi Horiike
* Hisashi Kato
* Ruy Ramos
* Jorginho
* Tsuyoshi Kitazawa
* Toninho
* Kazuyoshi Miura
* Masashi Nakayama

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1994 J.League Team of the Year

* GK: Kikuchi
* DF: Pereira
* DF: Ihara
* DF: Natsuka
* MF: Hashiratani
* MF: Kitazawa
* MF: Ramos
* MF: Bismarck
* MF: Betinho
* FW: Takeda
* FW: Takagi

Japan squads

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Japan squad – 1992 AFC Asian Cup winners (1st title)

* 1 Matsunaga
* 2 Otake
* 3 Katsuya
* 4 Horiike
* 5 Hashiratani
* 6 Tsunami
* 7 Ihara
* 8 Fukuda
* 9 Takeda
* 10 Ramos
* 11 Miura
* 12 Yamada
* 13 Sakakura
* 14 Kitazawa
* 15 Yoshida
* 16 Nakayama
* 17 Moriyasu
* 18 Jinno
* 19 Maekawa
* 20 Takagi
* Coach: Ooft

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Japan squad – 1995 FIFA Confederations Cup

* 1 Matsunaga
* 2 Natsuka
* 3 Tsunami
* 4 Ihara
* 5 Hashiratani
* 6 Moriyasu
* 7 Horiike
* 8 Kitazawa
* 9 T. Yamaguchi
* 10 Ramos
* 11 Miura
* 12 Kikuchi
* 13 Hasegawa
* 14 Isogai
* 15 M. Yamaguchi
* 16 Fukuda
* 17 Soma
* 18 Yanagimoto
* 19 Okano
* 20 Kojima
* Coach: Kamo

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