Tomi Shimomura
Tomi Shimomura (下 村 东 美Japanese, Tomi Shimomura, born December 18, 1980 in Sapporo, Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese- Austrian football player. He is currently in the J. League Division 2 at Shonan Bellmare under contract.
Club career
Teens
The son of an Austrian emigrant and a Japanese woman began in elementary school in his hometown Sapporo playing football. First, he was also active in tennis, but focused on senior high school in favor of his career completely on football. The main reason was his father, who was active in his native country as an amateur player. During his high school years he came to the side of the Japanese international's future and then exceptional talent Koji Yamase vorlegten the focus of his home club Consadole Sapporo, both a contract offer. While Yamase appealed and in 2000 ran aground in the J-League to Shimomura decided on a training at a university.
In 1999, he was then on the Osaka Taiiku Daigaku ( " Sport University Osaka "; engl Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences. ) Where he was able to celebrate his first success as a football player. As captain of his university teams he has had the honor of being elected in the Kansai selection that characterizes the best youth players.
Cerezo Osaka
After graduating in 2003, he then wrote his first professional contract with the J. League team Cerezo Osaka. In consequence, it was not until the 2004 season, before he could make his debut under the then Bosnian coach Fuad Muzurović for Cerezo in the J-League. Previously, he was only used in the Emperor's Cup and friendly matches. After the dismissal of Muzurović and ordering Shinji Kobayashi head coach in the same season, he became first team regular. Kobayashi proved in a row as a great patron of Shimomura and pulled him from the defense in his former position as a defensive midfielder before. This was remarkable, since this position before the expensive Serbian Miodrag Andjelkovic Legionnaires held, which had to be satisfied in a row with a place on the bench. The changes intervened and Cerezo managed as a table Fifteenth just the relegation for the J- League.
For the season of 2005 was followed by a great upheaval in the team. All European Legionnaires, including Davorin Kablar, Ivan Radeljic or the Croatian ex-team player Krunoslav Lovrek had to leave the club and were replaced in large part by local talents. Only the departure of top scorer Yoshito Okubo to RCD Mallorca they tried to compensate by the commitment of the Brazilian Fabinho. The plan worked again. The previously chronically relegation threatened Cerezo played around Shimomura, who was appointed as the captain during the season, great on and took the penultimate matchday of the season standings. In the last game of the season, you defended it successfully until the injury time, before you even gave the title Dorch by a late goal from FC Tokyo from his hand and dropped back to fifth place. To make matters worse then was also the local rivals Gamba Osaka champion, which led to a collective trauma in the team.
This was particularly noticeable in the following season, in which hardly changed team could not build on the achievements of the previous year and herumdümpelte at the end of the league table. Naturally, followed by the dismissal of Kobayashi, but did not bring the desired effect. Cerezo rose as Penultimate for the second time in the history of the club from the J-League from. Shimomura emerged as one of the few winners of the season, as he could prolong one of the few leistungsmäßgien its upward trend and was present after descending several contract offers from other clubs.
JEF United
2007 he moved to JEF United, where it was confirmed with Amar Osim, the son of the appointed national coach Ivica Osim to the Japanese as a coach. For JEF Shimomura was immediately secured a regular place, and together with Koki Mizuno a strong midfield axis. However, the rest of the team acted greatly disappointing, reaching to the high expectations only to the thirteenth place in the standings. As a result, Osim had to go and the Croat Josip Kuže was appointed as the new coach.
The year 2008 then began disastrously for JEF. The strong had to do with a failed transfer policy of Kuže whose obligations disappointed all. When taken for a lot of money Mirko Hrgovic, which should replace the Celtic Glasgow migrated midfielder Mizuno, proved a veritable flop and was released after four months. Similarly, it was among Brazilians Alex and Michael and the fetched as defensive organizer Japanese national hero Kazuyuki Toda, who had clearly passed its zenith. After again was found after 13 laps at end of table, Kuže had as a consequence his coach chair evacuate and was replaced by former assistant coach of FC Liverpool, the Scotsman Alex Miller.
Under Miller JEF managed in a row in a table Fifteenth just avoid relegation, but the result meant the worst result of the ambitious club since 1998. Shimomura, now also captain of JEF United, acted during the time of Miller as its mouthpiece, as this could not japanese and the rest of the crew had problems to understand his Scottish accent. So Shimomura stated in an interview with the BBC to have understood in the early days of Miller only 40 to 50 % of its instructions and statements.
For the 2009 Miller tried to make a break and reduced the bloated squad from 37 to 24 players. In episode one went without European Legionnaires, but with some local talent in the season with the aim to form a working team. When this failed and JEF the entire season at end of table herumdümpelte the club moved the ripcord and dismissed Miller in June 2009. At this time, JEF was already at the end of the table, what Miller's successor Atsuhiko Ejiri also could not change. At the end of the season JEF rose as Table unceremoniously for the first time in the club's history from the J-League from. The young men had been able to provide at any time during the season their Erstligatauglichkeit demonstrate captain Shimomura was clearly overwhelmed with the leadership of the young players.
Montedio Yamagata
After his second relegation in three years, he joined then the first class since 2009 Montedio Yamagata, which is cared for by his former sponsor Shinji Kobayashi. Due to a persistent knee injury that he had suffered already at the end of last season, he had to sit in the first two games of the season. On March 21, he reported back from the recovery and made his debut for Yamagata 1-1 draw with Urawa Red Diamonds in the J-League.
Besides his native Japanese and English, he speaks because of his Austrian father also fluent in German.