Yūki Nagasato

Yūki Nagasato (永里 優季, Nagasato Yūki, formerly Yūki Ōgimi; born 15 July 1987) is a Japanese footballer who plays as a striker for National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) club Racing Louisville FC. She is the first female footballer to play for the first-team of a Japanese men's club.

Yūki Nagasato
Nagasato with Frankfurt in 2016
Personal information
Birth name Yūki Nagasato
Date of birth (1987-07-15) 15 July 1987
Place of birth Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Racing Louisville FC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2009 Nippon TV Beleza 110 (69)
2010–2013 Turbine Potsdam 71 (48)
2013–2014 Chelsea 18 (5)
2015 Wolfsburg 9 (4)
2015–2017 Frankfurt 35 (8)
2017–2020 Chicago Red Stars 56 (13)
2018–2019 → Brisbane Roar (loan) 11 (4)
2020 → Hayabusa Eleven (loan)
2021– Racing Louisville FC 0 (0)
National team‡
2004–2016 Japan 132 (58)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 September 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 17:36, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Nagasato represented Japan internationally between 2004 and 2016, scoring 58 goals in 132 caps.[2] She has won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2011, and came second in 2015.

Club career

Nagasato was born in Atsugi on 15 July 1987. In 2001, she was promoted to Nippon TV Beleza from her youth team. In the 2002 season, she debuted in L.League. She became one of the division's top scorers in 2006 season. She also won the league championship 6 times (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008).

In 2010, Nagasato moved to Turbine Potsdam in Germany, where she won the Bundesliga's leading goal-scorer award. She also won the UEFA Champions League with that team. In 2013, she transferred to the English FA WSL club Chelsea.[3]

She joined Wolfsburg in early 2015 to play in a stronger league for the 2015 World Cup.[4] In August 2015, Nagasato joined UEFA Champions League 2015 winners Frankfurt.[5]

On 24 May 2017 it was announced that she had signed with the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), she appeared in only 6 games in 2017 due to injury.[6] In 2018 she was named Player of the Week for week 10 [7]

In October 2018, Nagasato signed with Brisbane Roar on loan for the 2018–19 W-League season.[8]

On 10 September 2020, Nagasato made history by becoming the first woman to play for Hayabusa Eleven, a men's team in the Kanagawa Prefecture League; she joined on loan until prior to the beginning of the 2021 NWSL season.[9]

On 26 October 2020, newly-formed club Racing Louisville FC announced Nagasato as one of their first signings for the 2021 National Women's Soccer League season.[10]

International career

In April 2004, Nagasato was selected Japan national team for 2004 Summer Olympics qualification. At this competition, on 22 April, she debuted against Thailand. She was also part of Japan's 2008 Summer Olympic team and 2007 World Cup.[11][12] Nagasato was part of the Japan squad that won the 2011 World Cup. She played as a substitute in the final against the United States. The game went to penalties and Nagasato had her penalty saved by Hope Solo, but Japan still emerged victorious.[13]

Since 2016, she wore the number 10 shirt for Japan, after Homare Sawa retired at 2016 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament.[14] After the tournament, new Japan's manager Asako Takakura gave the number 10 to Mizuho Sakaguchi and Nagasato wore the number 9.[15]

Personal life

Nagasato's brother Genki is a professional footballer, and her younger sister Asano also played for Turbine Potsdam.

Nagasato married in July 2011[16] and changed her registered name from Nagasato to Ōgimi before the 2012 Summer Olympics. Upon her divorce in 2016, she re-assumed her maiden name.

Career statistics

Club
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Nippon TV Beleza 2001 00--
2002 20--20
2003 0020--20
2004 133--133
2005 211856--2624
2006 161832--1920
2007 18144123-2418
2008 20932--2311
2009 20745--2412
Total 11069211623-13388
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam 2009–10 10610-52168
2010–11 21105613893528
2011–12 191322672722
2012–13 221852423122
Total 7247131013232010980
Chelsea 2013 500000-50
2014 1353141-207
Total 1853141-257
Wolfsburg 2014–15 9521-40156
1. FFC Frankfurt 2015–16 16523-51239
2015–16 19331-00224
Total 35854-514513
Chicago Red Stars 2017 61---61
2018 234---234
Total 295---295
Brisbane Roar 2018-19 114---114
Chicago Red Stars 2019 248---248
Career total 3081514433773221391212

International
Appearances and goals by national team and year[17][18]
National team YearAppsGoals
Japan 200410
200596
2006139
2007124
2008179
200930
201031
2011173
2012169
2013126
201495
2015133
201673
Total13258

Honours

Club

Nippon TV Beleza

1. FFC Turbine Potsdam

VfL Wolfsburg

International

Japan

Individual

Performances

  • L.League top-goalscorer: 2006
  • L-League Best Eleven: 2005, 2006
  • Bundesliga top-goalscorer: 2013

See also

References
  1. "Japanese Medalists in London 2012 Olympics". joc.or.jp. Japanese Olympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  2. Profile at Japan Football Association website
  3. "Chelsea Sign World Cup Winner". She Kicks. 8 July 2013. Archived from the original on 12 July 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  4. http://www.waz-online.de/Sport/VfL-Frauenfussball/Og. imi-Der-VfL-holt-die-Weltmeisterin-sofort
  5. "Yuki Ogimi verlässt VfL". wolfsburg.de. 13 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  6. "Chicago Signs Japanese International Yuki Nagasato". chicagoredstars.com. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  7. "Yuki Nagasato Voted NWSL Player of the Week". 5 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  8. "Japanese superstar Nagasato heads for Brisbane". 6 October 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  9. "Yuki Nagasato Makes History with Loan to Hayabusa Eleven". Chicago Red Stars. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  10. "First players announced!". www.newschain.uk. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  11. "YUKI OGIMI JOINS CHELSEA LADIES FC". www.fawsl.com. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  12. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yuki Nagasato-Ogimi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  13. "USA v Japan - as it happened". Guardian. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  14. "Ogimi receives No. 10 shirt before final Olympic qualifiers". The Japan Times Online. 25 February 2016. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  15. Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
  16. On July 27, 2011 at Official site (in Japanese)
  17. Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
  18. List of match in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
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