Norio Tsukitate

Norio Tsukitate (築舘 範男, Tsukitate Norio, born 2 April 1960) is a Japanese football manager and former player.

Norio Tsukitate
Personal information
Full name Norio Tsukitate
Date of birth (1960-04-02) 2 April 1960
Place of birth Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Youth career
Toyota Nishi Senior High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1988 Toyota Motor Corp. SC
Teams managed
1992–1994 Nagoya Grampus Eight
2002–2005 Shimizu S-Pulse youth
2005–2009 Guam
2013 Timor Leste U-19
2014 Laos
2014 Bangladesh women
2015 Bhutan
2018–2019 Timor Leste U-23
2018– Timor Leste
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Managerial career

Early career

Tsukitate coached the Nagoya Grampus and the youth team of Shimizu S-Pulse.[1]

Guam national team

Tsukitate led the national team of Guam from February 2005 to 2009. The highlight of his Guamanian stint was when he led the team to winning the top of its group at the first round of the preliminary competition of the 2010 East Asian Football Championship held in March 2009.[1]

Timor-Leste national under-19 team

The national under-19 team of Timor-Leste was led by Tsukitate during the 2013 AFF U-19 Youth Championship. Timor-Leste finished third at said tournament.[2]

Bangladesh women's national team

In October 2014, Tsukitate was appointed as head coach of the women's national team of Bangladesh. This was his first time to coach a women's team. He was tasked to lead the team until the 2014 SAFF Women's Championship. He was also named adviser of the under-16 team for the 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualifiers.[1][3]

Bhutan national team

Tsukitate was appointed coach of the Bhutan national team taking over from Chokey Nima who led the team through the first round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. His first task as coach was to lead the team through the second round of the qualifiers.[4]

At his final game with Bhutan against Maldives in the qualifiers, he had a disagreement with Hishey Tshering, the team manager over the selection of starting players. Tsukitate claimed that Hishey was trying to take over his duties as head coach while Hishey said that he is expressing concerns of players being played in an unfamiliar position. Tsukitate left the team at half time after he was asked to leave by Hishey, who is also Vice President of the Bhutan Football Federation. Tsukitate's tenure as head coach of Bhutan ended. For the next qualifiers game, the Bhutanese national team was led by Tsukitate's assistant coach Pema who took over as interim head coach.[5][6]

Timor Leste return

In May 2018, Tsukitate returned to Timor Leste to take charge of the senior team and the U-23 team.[7]

Coaching honours
Timor-Leste U19
Bangladesh (women's)

References
  1. Mahmood, Raihan (9 October 2014). "Tsukitate to guide Bangladesh women footballers". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  2. Suyono (21 September 2013). "Lolos Final, Timnas U-19 Indonesia masih perlu banyak perbaikan - U19 Indonesia escapes to the finals but still needs more improvement". Lensa Indonesia. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  3. "Tsukitate unveiled as women's coach". New Age. 12 October 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  4. "A veteran called for World Cup". Kuensel. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
  5. Younten Tshedup (9 October 2015). "Head coach Norio Tsukitate sacked". Kuensel. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  6. Younten Tshedup (9 October 2015). "Head coach Norio wanted to leave: BFF". Kuensel. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  7. http://www.jfa.jp/eng/social_action_programme/international_exchange/dispatch_member/
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