Kenzo Yokoyama

Kenzo Yokoyama
Personal information
Full name Kenzo Yokoyama
Date of birth (1943-01-21) January 21, 1943
Place of birth Saitama, Japan
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth career
1962–1965 Rikkyo University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1977 Mitsubishi Motors 136 (0)
Total 136 (0)
National team
1964–1974 Japan 49 (0)
Teams managed
1976–1983 Mitsubishi Motors
1988–1991 Japan
1994 Urawa Reds
2000 Urawa Reds

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Kenzo Yokoyama (横山 謙三 Yokoyama Kenzō, born January 21, 1943) is a former Japanese football player. Yokoyama also coached the Japan national team between 1988 and 1991.

Career

Yokoyama was born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan in 1943. After graduating from Kawaguchi High School and Rikkyo University, he played professionally in the Japan Soccer League for Mitsubishi Motors in Saitama Prefecture. He played a total of 136 league games, and 37 games for the national team.[1] Yokoyama also played in two Olympics, including the bronze-medal team at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[2]

After retiring as a player, Yokoyama took over the coaching reins of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in 1976, and coached them for eight years, winning the league championship in 1978 and 1982. The team also won the Japan Soccer League Cup twice, in 1978 and 1982, and the Emperor's Cup twice, in 1978 and 1980, making the 1978 season the first domestic treble for a Japanese club.

Following the J1 League advent he was called back to the manager's position in 1994 but was unsuccessful and was sacked. In 2000, with Urawa in a second stint in the second tier (the first had been in 1989), Yokoyama was brought back and led them to promotion back to J1 as runner-up.

Club statistics

Club performance League
Season Club League Apps Goals
Japan League
1966Mitsubishi MotorsJSL Division 1140
1967140
1968140
1969140
1970140
1971140
1972140
1973180
1974180
197520
197600
197700
Country Japan 1360
Total 1360

National team statistics

Japan national team
YearAppsGoals
196410
196540
196660
196750
196830
196930
1970120
197160
197230
197320
197440
Total490

Managerial statistics

[3]

Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Urawa Reds 1994 1994 44 14 0 30 31.82
Total 44 14 0 30 31.82

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Japan - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
  2. ↑ "Kenzo Yokoyama Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
  3. ↑ J.League Data Site(Japanese)
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