Daigo Kobayashi
Daigo Kobayashi (Japanese小林 大悟, Daigo Kobayashi, born February 19, 1983 in Fuji) is a Japanese football player. After working in Norway and Greece it is since 2011 again in the home at Shimizu S-Pulse under contract.
Club career
Kobayashi began in 1998 in the team Shimizu Commercial High School with professional football. After good performances at youth level he was taken in 2001 by the former J- League club Tokyo Verdy under contract.
In his first season he had a hard time under coach Yasutaro Matsuki and was only sporadically used. Only after his resignation he became from 2002 Lori Paulo Sandri -team regular. It was followed by four years in which, whilst team player, but also inconspicuously in central midfield was used. In 2004 he celebrated his greatest success at first, which was rolled over in 2005 with the Japanese Super Cup title by winning the Kaiser Cup. Although he was able to draw attention to themselves in 2005 with striking strong performances, the season for Tokyo Verdy was disappointing. Despite his power increase and the signing of top striker Washington the club was relegated as second to last out of the league at season's end.
As a result, he joined league internally to center stand Omiya Ardija, where he finally rose to stardom. In Omiya he was brought forward from the central to the offensive midfield, where he came to better advantage. He immediately became a key public figure in the game of Omiya and scored in his first season nine goals this season. In the same year he was nominated for the first time the Japanese All-Star player and for the Japanese national team. In the following years he played at a high level, without being able to win a title with Omiya. In 2007, a further convene the All-Star team in the league. In 2008 it became apparent that the club the player longer would not be able to keep. Kobayashi himself pushed for a change, because he did not see with the club the chance to move up into the top field in the league. Omiya, which was his star pull only reluctantly, then lay against a league internal transfer across and put the call to let him go abroad.
In 2009 he then moved up surprisingly on loan for a year to Stabæk Fotball in Norway. The transfer turned in a row for both sides be very fortunate. The club had previously to cope with the departures of Veigar Pall Gunnarsson and Alanzinho the loss of two important supports, which could not be compensated in the unanimous opinion. But Kobayashi quickly found himself in the new league deal and continued his strong performances from previous years. Together with Sweden and Daniel Nannskog Pontus Farnerud he made a very prolific axis Stabæk last long in the title fight. In the course of the season Kobayashi was a crowd favorite, the set with eight goals this season his offensive skills to the test. Before the end of the loan period tried Stabæk then, the player to commit firmly, but this failed due to the fact that Kobayashi had made by his achievements clubs from bigger leagues attention to themselves and thereby increased its price. Contrary to other clubs to Stabæk then took off with the coming loss of the player and adopted him after only one year with a great interview on the club's website. Analogous to the club regretted his departure is also Kobayashi and thanked them for the great time. With 8 goals in 29 season he was behind inserts Nannskog Second internal scorers and had most of the season recorded inserts. As a replacement for Kobayashi took Stabæk then the Icelander Pall Gunnarsson back, who had previously failed at AS Nancy.
After the end of the season he completed in December 2009, a trial with German Bundesliga 1 FC Cologne.
National
Kobayashi debuted in 2002 for the Japanese U-19 national team, with which qualified by the second place in the U-19 Asian Cup in Qatar for the World Youth Championship in 2003.
In 2003, he then took part in the U -20 national team at the World Cup tournament, where you failed in the quarter -finals to eventual winners Brazil. Kobayashi came in four games for use.
In the Japanese national football team he came to date (as of December 2009) only on August 9, 2006 in a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago used. He came on in the 56th minute for the game Koji Yamase. Since then, he has not been convened.