Hajime Hosogai
Hajime Hosogai (Japanese细 贝 萌Hosogai Hajime ) ( born June 10, 1986 in Maebashi, Gunma ) is a Japanese football player at the position of a defensive midfielder and central defender, who is currently under contract at Hertha BSC.
Club career
Career start in Maebashi
Its active club career as a football player began Hosogai when he was taken in 1999 in the youth department (FC Maebashi Junior Youth, FC前橋 ジュニア ユース) of his home club and stayed there until 2001. After his admission followed the Maebashi Ikuei High School (前 桥 育 英 高校), which he eventually attended until 2004 and where he was also formed in the football sector. He walked the same path that included the future two -time National Player Takeshi Aoki went recently, before joining the Kashima Antlers and there was a mainstay. After graduating from high school Hosogai abolished in February 2005, the leap into the professional squad of Urawa Red Diamonds that their gaming operations at this time for several years back in the J. League Division 1, the top division in the Japanese football has. His professional league debut for the gambling in red Japanese first division of Urawa -ku, a city district of Saitama, he came on 9 April 2005, a 1-1 home draw against Gamba Osaka in 81 minutes for the more experienced Tadaaki when he Hirakawa came on the lawn. After a long break Hosogai came in November 2005 to two more brief appearances, of which the longer lasted about half an hour. With the team he has been this season, Japanese runner and at the same time Cup winner of the game in 2005. With the team, he was also successful in the subsequent Supercup, which was played in February 2006. After Hosogai already in the cup final was used, it was used by coach Guido Buchwald also in the Supercup match, which was won 3-1 over Gamba Osaka.
Success over the Urawa Red Diamonds continues
After only three league operations in 2005, but great successes, it was missing the young defensive player in the subsequent game in 2006 at the necessary clout, taking it to only two inserts ( a 0-2 away defeat against JEF United Ichihara Chiba in May 2006 and a 3-0 home success) brought in the highest soccer league in Japan over Ventforet Kofu in November 2006. For the team playing strong, it was enough at the end of the 2006 season for the championship title, which one won by a margin of five points on the nearest opponent Kawasaki Frontale. Also in the Emperor's Cup, the team was successful once again and won the contest after 2005 and 2006. During the subsequent Supercup game of the year, the Urawa Red Diamonds, however, had to admit defeat to Gamba Osaka, who won the encounter 4-0. Due to the success in the league, the team was also automatically qualified for the group stage of the AFC Champions League 2007, where the team clearly prevailed from the start and finally made it to the finals of the competition. There, the Iranian club Sepahan Isfahan was dispatched with a total score of 3-1 Urawa Red Diamonds won subsequently for the first time in their club history, the Asian Champions League. Also Hosogai was used at this time, coach Holger Osieck of the Champions League.
Within the league, it brought the trained defensive midfielder in the 2007 to a total of eight missions in which, however, he again remained scoreless. Nevertheless, it was enough for the team at the end of the runner-up title, the one reached with a residue of two points on the Kashima Antlers and thus qualified for the umpteenth time for the AFC Champions League. There, the team rose in the quarter finals, where they prevailed with a total score of 4:3 against Al Qadsia Kuwait, but in the subsequent semi-final against eventual Champions League winners Gamba Osaka with a total score of 2:4 in return game lost. Previously, the team managed but at the FIFA Club World Cup 2007 third place after it narrowly lost 0-1 in the semi final against AC Milan, but the match for 3rd place after extra time in a penalty shoot-out against the Tunisian club Etoile Sportive du Sahel won. Also in the J. League during the 2008 season, it was largely positive for Hosogai.
Breakthrough as a professional player
So he made the long hoped breakthrough and brought it to a total of 28 appearances in the league, in which he came to scoring in two encounters. He scored his first goal this 26 October 2008 in a 1-0 away win over Albirex Niigata, as he contributed the winning goal in the 80th minutes. The second goal he succeeded in a 6-1 away defeat on December 6, 2008 against the Yokohama F. Marinos, as he scored the 1:2 goal back, which should, however, become insignificant, subsequently, due to the amount of defeat. In the league, it was enough for just a seventh place, with which one but was still ahead of the reigning Champions League winners Gamba Osaka.
In the following season, 2009, Hosogai established further as one of the leaders in the team and was already doing quite often in addition to the multiple international Keita Suzuki, the captain of the team loop. In the league, it brought the then 23 -year-old on 31 of the 34 possible gewesenen League bets, scoring as many goals as in the previous season and came up with two assists. With the team he was again able to not connect to the successes of recent years in the final standings and ranked end of the season only in sixth place in the table and had a backlog of 14 points on the master, the Kashima Antlers. In the 2010 season the team has now coached by Volker Finke sagged further from where it was brought only to tenth place in the table and it already had a big behind champions Nagoya Grampus. Hosogai even brought it in this game year to a record of 28 league games in which he scored one goal and three more prepared for his teammates. After he was shown already in the game 2009, seven yellow cards in league games, this number increased in 2010 to a total of eight pieces, which he never once the place was referred for a total of 98 league inserts yet, which in turn speaks for its defensive qualities.
Transfer to Germany
Because of these benefits Hosogai was appointed this year also in the squad of the Japanese national team, where he was observed, inter alia, of international scouts. Although he still belonged to the Urawa Red Diamonds at this time, he wrote in the Christmas holidays of 2010 dated before 30 June 2013 contract with the German football Bundesliga Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Hosogai, who was taking part at this time with his team at the Emperor's Cup in 2010 and made it there until the semi-finals, joined the move to Germany in early 2011, giving priority, however, was awarded with immediate effect in the German second division side FC Augsburg. His dortiger loan contract ran until 30 June 2012. Immediately after the exchange on free loan to Augsburg Hosogai took his trip to Qatar, where he participated with the Japanese national team at the Asia Cup 2011 and therefore fell out a portion of the second half. He made his debut in the 2-0 on 23 game against 1860 Munich, when he came on in the 67th minute for Michael Thurk.
For the 2012/13 season Hosogai returned to Leverkusen. On 21 May 2013, has been committed to a four-year contract from Hertha BSC to the 2013/14 season.
National team career
After Hosogai was already active in several youth national teams of Japan, he took the U -23 in his home country, among others, the football tournament of the Asian Games in 2006 and was a with the same team and the Toulon Tournament in 2008 and the football tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in use. There he was employed in two group matches of Group B, but resigned with the team at an early stage as Group Last by current competition are from. It then took until 2010 before the Japanese Football Association became aware of the defensive talent again. Because of the benefits that resulted Hosogai in the league, he was fetched from the interim coach of the Japanese national Hiromi Hara, who is actually acting as technical director of the national team, but had to step in as a substitute in the short term in the A national team of his native country.
There Hosogai graduated from the friendlies against Paraguay ( 1-0) and against Guatemala (2-1) over the full match duration. Then Hosogai was established by the new national team coach Alberto Zaccheroni at the historic 1-0 victory over the team of Argentina. The end of December he was appointed to the Japanese squad for the Asian Cup 2011.