Shinji Kagawa
Shinji Kagawa (2012 )
Shinji Kagawa [ kaɡaɰa ] (Japanese香 川 真 司Kagawa Shinji, born March 17, 1989 in Tarumi -ku, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese football player. He stands at Manchester United.
Career
Club career
Beginnings in Hyōgo and Miyagi
The Kagawa was born and raised in Tarumi -ku, a city district of Kobe began his active career as a football player in the clubs Marino FC Club and Kobe NK Soccer Club and changed hands at a young age for training FC Miyagi Barcelona in the Miyagi Prefecture. There he played from 2001 to 2003 in the Junior Youth team and in the years 2004 and 2005 in pure Youth Team.
Time with Cerezo Osaka
2006 Kagawa eventually got a professional contract with Cerezo Osaka, who had their game operating at that time in the J. League Division 1 offered. This season he was indeed the pro squad of the club, but was mainly in the youth team of the club to use and had to wait until 2007 for his first professional use. After the descent of the teams in the Division 2 Kagawa came in the men's team of big-city clubs in his first season on 35 league missions, where he scored five goals.
After a rather mediocre fifth place in the season finale Table 2007 managed the team in 2008 to fourth place and just missed the relegation round for the promotion to the top flight. The dedicated offensive midfielder brought it this season again on 35 championship games, but could produce a significantly better goal ratio in contrast to the previous year over the entire season, he came 16 times to score. The season of 2009 was in itself a great success for Cerezo Osaka as well as for Shinji Kagawa. Thus, the team reached under the leadership of the Brazilian Levir Culpi with two points distance to Vegalta Sendai second place in the final table and thus rose to directly to the highest Japanese league. In 44 missions Kagawa came to a balance of 122 shots on goal, which he scored 27 goals and top scorer in the J. League Division 2 was.
With the rise of his scoring prowess did not abate. In the Division 1 he came in eleven games on seven goals and one assist.
Moving to Germany
In the winter of 2009/2010 season Kagawa has been invited by the agency of Thomas Kroth to tests at Schalke, Borussia Dortmund and Leverkusen. With Borussia Dortmund, he agreed a valid from 1 July 2010 three-year contract. Instead of a transfer fee paid Borussia training compensation of € 350,000 at Cerezo Osaka. In his first Europa League game on 19 August 2010, he scored against the Azerbaijani club FK Qarabağ Aghdam his first two Goals in official matches for Dortmund. On 11 September 2010 ( 3rd Round ) he scored in the game against VfL Wolfsburg his first Bundesliga goal in the 2-0 final score. The next Round, he scored the first two goals for BVB in the local derby with FC Schalke 04, which Dortmund won 3-1 at the end. After five scoreless games in the Europa League he scored on December 2 with a header 1-0 3-0 win over Karpaty Lviv. In the 2010/11 season he was with the German champions Borussia Dortmund, although he had the entire second half not played with a broken metatarsal. Nearly a year later, on matchday 32 of the 2011/12 season, Kagawa Borussia Dortmund defended the title from the year 2011 and was the second time in his career German masters. In addition, he won with the BVB 12 May 2012 the DFB Cup, where he scored the 1-0 in the final. His contract with BVB ran until 30 June 2013. The association wanted to extend the contract after the season, but Kagawa turned down offers for a contract extension from.
Change in the Premier League
During the summer break in 2012 Kagawa moved to Manchester United. He signed after obtaining work permit and passing the medicine check a four-year contract until 30 June 2016., The transfer fee is said to have stood at 15 million euros. His first competitive game for Manchester, he played on 20 August 2012 in the 0-1 away defeat against Everton on the opening day of the season 2012/13. His first goal for United, he scored a week later in the home game at Old Trafford against Fulham.
National
2006 Kagawa was first appointed to the U -20 team in Japan. By 2009, he came in six games for use and completed it two games during the Junior World Championships in 2007 in Canada, where the Japanese U-20 national team was eliminated as a preliminary round group winners in the second round against the Czech U-20 team in a penalty shootout. In 2008, it managed the 1.72 m wide midfielder in the Japanese Olympic team, which already left early on in the football tournament of the Olympic Games as a group Last of the group. Overall, it brought Kagawa 2008 on five U-23 inserts, scoring one goal.
Even before his Olympic participation of Attacking Allrounder came on 24 May 2008 on his first senior international use, when he takes on the 1-0 victory of Japan over the Ivory Coast during the Kirin Cup in the 75th minute for the France - Legionnaire Daisuke Matsui the place was. His first scoring for the national team came Kagawa on 9 October 2008 when he scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory over the national team in the UAE. By February 2010, the two-footed attacking player came at ten A- international matches for use, scoring two goals.
After Kagawa had canceled for the 2010 World Cup first, it was announced on 17 May 2010 from the Japanese Football Association that he would participate in the preparation as a reservist. In fact, however, he did not belong in the World Cup squad for the Japanese national team.
Kagawa took in January 2011 Japan participated in the Asia Cup 2011. He was injured in the semi-final match against South Korea, and immediately took the return trip to Dortmund. On January 27, 2011, a metatarsal fracture was diagnosed, so Kagawa was sidelined until Round 33. On the final day for the celebration of the already established league title Kagawa came on in the 87th minute.
Achievements
Club teams
- English Champion ( 1): 2013
- German Champion (2): 2011, 2012
- DFB Cup (1 ): 2012
- Promotion to the J. League ( Division 1 ) (1): 2009
National
- Asian champions (1 ): 2011
Awards
- Scorer in J. League ( Division 2 ) (1): 2009
- Team of the Year in Germany (1 ): 2011 (as a member of Borussia Dortmund)
- Asia's international Footballer of the Year: 2012