Mitsuo Ogasawara

Mitsuo Ogasawara (Japanese小 笠原 満 男Mitsuo Ogasawara; born April 5, 1979 in Morioka ) is a Japanese football player.

Career

After high school time Ogasawara moved in 1998 to the Kashima Antlers. At least five times, he was employed in his first year in which the Antlers were also masters. Two years later, the center-forward who played with playmaker qualities in the trunk of the team and helped the club champion in 2000, Emperor's Cup and League Cup winners was. In defense of the league title in 2001 Ogasawara contributed 7 goals. It was the fourth championship of the club, the order became the most successful club of the young J. League history. He was elected for the first time in the " Team of the Year" in 2001, in which he stood continuously from then until 2005. Another League Cup in 2002 and the victory in the inaugural transnational A3 Champions Cup 2003 joined the ranks of his collection of titles.

Internationally, Mitsuo Ogasawara was involved in all successes that have reaped the Japanese national selections. In the second place at the Junior World Cup Nigeria 1999 he was a member of the U20. Up to the Football World Cup 2002 in their own country, he had also played in the senior team and there came to his first world use. Although he had with internationally experienced England legionnaires Hidetoshi Nakata and Shunsuke Nakamura strong competition in midfield, but he was in all the tournaments in the Japanese contingent, of Olympia where he belonged on the Confederations Cup to Asia Championship, 2004, the victorious team. Through crucial goals he also contributed to the qualification for the FIFA World Cup in 2006 and was in the World Cup squad in Japan for Germany, where he was also used in two of the three World Cup games in his country.

Even before the World Cup Ogasawara had flirted with a move abroad. This was followed also from the 2006 /07 change in the Italian Serie A, where he played on loan for one year for the barely escape relegation had escaped FC Messina. After the season, however, he returned to Japan.

Achievements

With the national

  • Asian champions: 2004
  • Vice -U20 Junior World Champion 1999
  • Participation in: 2002 World Cup, the Confederations Cup 2003, AFC Asian Cup 2004 Confederations Cup 2005 World Cup 2006

With its associations

  • Japanese champion: 1998, 2000, 2001
  • Japanese Cup winner: 2000
  • Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: 2000, 2002
  • Nissan A3 Champions Cup: 2003

Awards

  • J. League Player of the Year: 2009
  • J. League Best Eleven: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009
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