Kunishige Kamamoto

Kunishige Kamamoto (Japanese釜 本 邦 茂, Kamamoto Kunishige; born April 15, 1944 in Kyoto ) is a former Japanese football player and coach and current official and politician.

Career

As a player

Kamamoto began in the fourth grade of elementary school to play soccer and ran the sport even after his move to the Yamashiro High School of Kyoto Prefecture ( Kyoto - Furitsu Yamashiro Kōtō Gakko ). From 1963 to 1966 Kamamoto studied at Waseda University and was there four times in a row, scorer of the Kanto University League. In 1967, joined the Forward Yanmar diesel, for which he scored 202 goals in 251 games the Japan Soccer League until 1984.

As a coach

From 1978 to 1984 supervised Kamamoto Yanmar diesel as player-manager and then as a coach. In 1991, he started training at local rivals Matsushita Electric Industrial and supervised the team that had been renamed after the founding of the J. League in Gamba Osaka until 1995. Recently as 2009, he went back to coaching positions and that at the unterklassigen Fujieda My FC, Japanese myfootballclub counterpart to the English Ebbsfleet United.

As official and politician

Kamamoto chosen in 1995 for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP ) on the national proportional representation in the Sangiin, the upper house of the Japanese parliament. Within the LDP, he joined the Mitsuzuka / Mori faction. In 1998 he was appointed vice-president of the Japanese Football Association (Nihon Soccer Kyōkai, Eng. Japan Football Association). Yoshirō Mori appointed him in 2000 as Secretary of State ( fuku - daijin, " Deputy Minister ") in the Ministry of Social Affairs in his second cabinet. In the 2001 Sangiin election he received only 60 thousand of the newly introduced preferential votes nationwide and lost his mandate. 2002 belonged Kamamoto to the Board of the Organising Committee of the FIFA World Cup.

National

1962 and 1963 took Kamamoto with Japan at the U-19 Asian Cup part. Between 1964 and 1974, he played a total of 61 caps for the Japanese national football team, where he was able to achieve 55 goals. It is thus behind Kazuyoshi Miura 's second best scorer Japanese. Kamamoto participated with Japan team at the Olympic Games in 1964 and 1968. At the 1968 Olympic Games Japan won the bronze medal and Kamamoto was at this tournament with seven goals the best scorer. 1966, 1970 and 1974, he was with Japan at the Asian Games at the start.

Further achievements and honors

  • Japanese soccer champions: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1980
  • Japanese Cup winner: 1983, 1984
  • Japanese Footballer of the Year: 1966, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1981
  • Scorer in the Japan Soccer League: 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978
  • 14 -time appointment to the Japanese team of the season
  • 5th place in the selection of Asia's Player of the Century
  • Receiving one of the first in the Japan Football Hall of Fame 2005
Cerezo Osaka Primary school Player-coach Ebbsfleet United F.C. 1964 Summer Olympics
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