Karina Maruyama

Karina Maruyama (Japanese丸山 桂 里 奈, Maruyama Karina, born March 26, 1983 in Ōta, Tokyo ) is a Japanese football player at the position of the striker. With the Japanese national team won the 2011 World Cup in Germany.

A football training she received at the Tōkyō gas Soccer School. During her middle school, she played for the Yomiuri Menina, the youth team of the Women's division (L. League) Yomiuri Beleza. In 1997 she took part in the 18th National Women's Football Championship. After she moved to the high school, she had to leave Menina and played for the school football club. Later she attended the Japanese sports high school and was recorded during this period, 2002 in the Japanese national soccer team of women.

After her high school graduation, she joined the company in 2005, TEPCO and became a member of the woman works team TEPCO Mareeze. In the first year she was awarded the Rookie of the Year. In 2009, she left the team and the company and played in 2010 for Philadelphia Independence in the United States. However, on September 17 of the same year, she moved back to Japan for the team JEF United Ichihara Chiba Ladies.

During the football World Cup Women 2011, she scored the winning goal in the quarter-finals 1-0 against the German national football team of women who subsequently withdrew from the tournament. The gate was then nominated for election to the " Goal of the Tournament ".

Maruyama also belonged to the Japanese squad for the Olympic Games in London. But you just stood 0-0 against South Africa in the first round in the starting lineup. Im with 1:2 lost against the USA finals they came on in the 86th minute, but could be no more turning the game, so they won the silver medal with her team.

Achievements

• World Champion at the FIFA Women World Cup 2011 in Germany
• Silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games