Kenta Hasegawa

Kenta Hasegawa
Personal information
Full name	Kenta Hasegawa
Date of birth	(1965-09-25) September 25, 1965
Place of birth	Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
1981–1983	Shimizu Higashi High School
1984–1987	University of Tsukuba
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1991	Nissan Motors	33	(9)
1992–1999	Shimizu S-Pulse	207	(45)
Total		240	(54)
National team
1989–1995	Japan	27	(4)
Teams managed
2005–2010	Shimizu S-Pulse
2013–	Gamba Osaka
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Kenta Hasegawa (長谷川健太, Hasegawa Kenta, born September 25, 1965) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a right-footed forward.

Playing career

Club

He was educated at and played for Shimizu Higashi High School. He won the national high school championship with his teammates including Katsumi Oenoki and Takumi Horiike. He continued his study and football at University of Tsukuba where he won the Kanto University League title in 1987.

After graduating from the university in 1988, he joined Japan Soccer League side Nissan Motors (current Yokohama F. Marinos). He contributed to the club winning the Emperor's Cup twice in 1988 and 1989. When Japan's first-ever professional league J1 League started, Shimizu S-Pulse was founded in his local city. He joined the club in 1992 and re-united with his high school teammates Oenoki and Horiike. He helped the club to win the J.League Cup in 1996. He retired as a Shimizu player after the club won the second stage of the J1 League 1999 season. He played 207 league matches and scored 45 league goals in 7 seasons at Shimizu.

International

He was capped 27 times and scored 4 goals for the Japanese national team between 1989 and 1995. His first international appearance came on January 20, 1989 in a friendly against Iran in Teheran. He scored for the first time for his country on June 11, 1989 in a 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Indonesia at Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium in Tokyo. He was a member of the Japan squad who participated in the AFC final qualifying stage for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. In the crucial last match, Hasegawa was substituted in the 59th minute by Masahiro Fukuda and watched from the bench a late Iraqi equaliser dashed Japan's hope to qualify for the finals in the U.S.A., the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.

Club statistics

^[1]

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Japan			League		Emperor's Cup		J.League Cup		Total
1988/89	Nissan Motors	JSL Division 1	18	4					18	4
1989/90			11	5			3	0	14	5
1990/91			4	0			4	0	8	0
1992	Shimizu S-Pulse	J1 League	-		3	0	10	2	13	2
1993			36	10	4	1	1	0	41	11
1994			44	9	1	1	1	0	46	10
1995			21	3	0	0	-		21	3
1996			24	7	3	2	16	7	43	16
1997			30	5	1	0	6	2	37	7
1998			31	9	5	2	5	0	41	11
1999			21	2	2	1	2	1	25	3
Country	Japan		240	54	19	7	48	12	307	73
Total			240	54	19	7	48	12	307	73

National team statistics

Japan national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1989	11	2
1990	6	1
1991	0	0
1992	0	0
1993	5	0
1994	2	0
1995	3	1
Total	27	4

Managerial career

After retiring from the game, he started working as a pundit for national television NHK. He was also installed as the general manager of two university clubs, Hamamatsu University and Fuji Tokoha University (2000–2001). He became the manager of Hamamatsu University and lead them to win the Tokai University League title and the Shizuoka Prefectural qualification for the Emperor's Cup. He acquired the S-class coaching license that was required to manage a J1 League club in 2004 and became the manager of his old club S-Pulse in 2005. The club struggled and narrowly escaped relegation in the 2005 season but they fought back strongly in the 2006 season and finished 4th in the league; a position equaled in 2007.^[2] In 2008 Hasegawa led S-Pulse to the final of the Nabisco Cup and a fifth-placed finish in the league, a placing which included them being the strongest performing team in the second half of the season. He was rewarded with an extended contract which will keep him at S-Pulse until 2010.^[3] He left Shimizu after he led the club to the final of 2010-11 Emperor's Cup when his contract was expired.

Hawegawa was appointed as a manager at Gamba Osaka in 2013.

Managerial statistics

Update; December 31, 2015^[4]

Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	G	W	D	L	Win %
Shimizu S-Pulse	2005	2010	7002204000000000000♠204	7001890000000000000♠89	7001530000000000000♠53	7001620000000000000♠62	7001436300000000000♠43.63
Gamba Osaka	2013	Present	7002110000000000000♠110	7001620000000000000♠62	7001270000000000000♠27	7001210000000000000♠21	7001563600000000000♠56.36
Total			7002314000000000000♠314	7002151000000000000♠151	7001800000000000000♠80	7001830000000000000♠83	7001480900000000000♠48.09

In popular culture

In popular manga and anime series Chibi Maruko-chan, a boy called Kenta kun occasionally makes an appearance.^[5] He loves football and is a classmate of title character Chibi Maruko. Momoko Sakura, the author of the manga, created this character after Hasegawa. Sakura and Hasegawa attended the same primary school during the same period.

Honours

As a coach

Gamba Osaka

Individual

J. League Manager of the Year (1): 2014

References

↑ Kenta Hasegawa at National-Football-Teams.com
↑ Shimizu S-Pulse | The Japan Times Online
↑ http://www.s-pulse.co.jp/news/20081206-1263.html Kenta Hasegawa contract extension news release
↑ J.League Data Site(Japanese)
↑ Chibi Maruko-chan (2006) (TV)

External links

National Football Teams
Japan National Football Team Database
Player statistics at J.League Data Site (Japanese)
Manager statistics at J.League Data Site (Japanese)
Kenta Hasegawa at Giant Bomb

J1 League managers

Gamba Osaka – current squad

1 Higashiguchi
3 Nishino
4 Fujiharu
5 Niwa
6 Kim
7 Endō
8 Iwashita
9 Ademilson
10 Futagawa
11 Kurata
13 Abe
14 Yonekura
15 Konno
16 Tajiri
17 Okazaki
18 Fujigaya
19 Omori
20 Nagasawa
21 Ideguchi
22 Oh
23 Goya
24 Ogawa
25 Fujimoto
26 Senoo
27 T. Uchida
28 Yomesaka
29 Patric
30 Hirao
31 Hayashi
32 Noda
33 Ichimi
35 Hatsuse
36 Ichimaru
37 Takagi
38 Doan
40 Ogura
Manager: Hasegawa

1988–89 Japan Soccer League Team of the Year

Shigetatsu Matsunaga Oscar Takumi Horiike Moner Toru Sano Masahiro Wada Takashi Mizunuma Kazushi Kimura Kenta Hasegawa Osamu Maeda Koichi Hashiratani

Japan squad – 1995 FIFA Confederations Cup

1 Matsunaga 2 Natsuka 3 Tsunami 4 Ihara 5 Hashiratani 6 Moriyasu 7 Horiike 8 Kitazawa 9 T. Yamaguchi 10 Ramos 11 Miura 12 Kikuchi 13 Hasegawa 14 Isogai 15 M. Yamaguchi 16 Fukuda 17 Soma 18 Yanagimoto 19 Okano 20 Kojima Coach: Kamo

J.League Manager of the Year

1993: Matsuki 1994: Matsuki 1995: Wenger 1996: Nicanor 1997: João Carlos 1998: Ardiles 1999: Perryman 2000: Nishino 2001: Suzuki 2002: Suzuki 2003: Okada 2004: Okada 2005: Nishino 2006: Buchwald 2007: Oliveira 2008: Oliveira 2009: Oliveira 2010: Stojković 2011: Nelsinho 2012: Moriyasu 2013: Moriyasu 2014: Hasegawa 2015: Moriyasu 2016: Ishii

Shimizu S-Pulse – managers

Leão (1992–94) Pedro (1994) Rivellino (1994) Miyamoto (1995) Ardiles (1996–98) Perryman (1999–00) Zemunović (2000–02) Oki (2003) Gyotoku (2003) Antoninho (2004) Ishizaki (2004) Hasegawa (2005–10) Ghotbi (2011–14) Oenoki (2014–15) Tasaka (2015) Kobayashi (2016–)

Gamba Osaka – managers

Kamamoto (1992–94) Held (1995) Kuže (1996–97) Koncilia (1998) Antonetti (1998–99) Hayano (1999–01) Takemoto (2001) Nishino (2002–11) Serrão (2012) Matsunami (2012) Hasegawa (2013–)

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