Tsukasa Hosaka: Japanese association football player
Tsukasa Hosaka (保坂 司, Hosaka Tsukasa, March 3, 1937 – January 21, 2018) was a Japanese football player.
He played for the Japan national team.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tsukasa Hosaka | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | March 3, 1937 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | January 21, 2018 (aged 80) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1952–1954 | Kofu Daiichi High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1955–1958 | Meiji University | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1968 | Furukawa Electric | 47 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 47 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960–1964 | Japan | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1977 | Kofu SC | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Biography
Hosaka was born in Kofu on March 3, 1937. After graduating from Meiji University, he joined Furukawa Electric in 1959. He won 1960, 1961 and 1964 Emperor's Cup. In 1965, Furukawa Electric joined new league Japan Soccer League. He retired in 1968. He played 47 games in the league.
In November 1960, he was selected by the Japan national team for the 1962 World Cup qualification. At this qualification, on November 6, he debuted against South Korea. In 1962, he also played at the Asian Games. He was a regular goalkeeper in the early 1960s. In 1964, he was selected by Japan for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. However, he did not play in the match, because he fractured his hand just before the Olympics. Instead, he was the team's reserve goalkeeper behind Kenzo Yokoyama. He played 19 games for Japan until 1964.
After retirement, Hosaka became a manager for his local club Kofu SC in 1973. He managed until 1977.
On January 21, 2018, Hosaka died of pneumonia in Kofu at the age of 80.
Statistics
| Japan national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 1960 | 1 | 0 |
| 1961 | 6 | 0 |
| 1962 | 6 | 0 |
| 1963 | 5 | 0 |
| 1964 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 19 | 0 |
References
Other websites
- Tsukasa Hosaka at Olympedia
- Tsukasa Hosaka at FIFA
- Tsukasa Hosaka at National Football Teams.com
- Tsukasa Hosaka at FootballDatabase.eu
- Tsukasa Hosaka at WorldFootball.net
- Tsukasa Hosaka at Transfermarkt (player)
This short article about a Japanese sports person can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Tsukasa Hosaka, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Simple English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.