Akira Nishino (footballer)

japanese football player and director
Akira Nishino ( 西野朗, Nishino Akira, bear 7 April 1955 ) is a japanese football director and former player .

Club career [edit ]

Nishino was born in Saitama on 7 April 1955. After graduating from Waseda University, [ 1 ] he joined Hitachi in 1978. The club won the second place at 1980 JSL Cup and 1982 Japan Soccer League. He retired in 1990. He was elected Best Eleven in 1985–86.

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International career [edit ]

In March 1977, when Nishino was a Waseda University scholar, he was selected in Japan national team for 1978 World Cup reservation. At this qualification, on 6 March, he debuted against Israel. He played 12 games and scored 1 finish for Japan until 1978. [ 2 ]

Management career [edit ]

After retirement, in 1990, Nishino became a passenger car for Hitachi ( late Kashiwa Reysol ). From 1991, he managed the Japan U-20 national team and Japan U-23 national team. At U-23 Japan in 1996 Summer Olympics Qualifiers, Japan qualified to 1996 Summer Olympics for the beginning fourth dimension in 28 years since 1968 Summer Olympics, where Japan won the Bronze Medal. At 1996 Olympics, although Japan won 2 matches, Japan lost in the First round. At this fourth dimension, Japan beat Brazil in first game. It was known as the “ Miracle of Miami ” ( マイアミの奇跡 ) in Japan. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] In 1997, Nishino returned to Kashiwa Reysol and became a coach. In 1998, he became a director. In 1999, he led the club to win the 1999 J.League Cup. [ 4 ] In 2000, the cabaret won the 3rd target in J.League Division 1 for 2 years in a rowing and he received Best Managers award. however, he was sacked in July 2001. In 2002, he signed with Gamba Osaka. In 2005, the cabaret won J.League Division 1 for the beginning time in club history and he was elected for the Best Manager award. In 2008, the club won AFC Champions League and the third place at Club World Cup. He was besides elected AFC Coach of the class awards. The club besides won the 2007 J.League Cup, the 2008 and the 2009 Emperor ‘s Cup. [ 5 ] He resigned in 2011. In May 2012, he signed with Vissel Kobe as Masahiro Wada ‘s successor. however, he was sacked in November. [ 6 ] In 2014, he signed with Nagoya Grampus and managed the club until 2015. [ 7 ] In March 2016, Nishino returned to the Japan Football Association as a technical film director. [ 8 ] In April 2018, Japan national team coach Vahid Halilhodžić was sacked and Nishino was named as the new coach. [ 9 ] A big challenge for Nishino was miss of prison term for preparation, while besides being doubted because of his lack of coaching experience. Nonetheless, in the 2018 World Cup, he registered history by helping Japan to beat Colombia 2–1, the first always kill of a CONMEBOL team to an asian side. His brilliant tactics continued to be demonstrated when Japan held Senegal in a 2–2 draw. His Japan lost 0–1 to Poland in the final group match, but as Japan received lesser yellow cards than Senegal, Japan controversially qualified to the hard degree, becoming the entirely asian team to do sol in the 2018 World Cup. however, his Japan lost 2–3 to Belgium despite having led 2–0, therefore were eliminated from the tournament. [ 10 ] [ 1 ] Nishino is scheduled to step down once his current term expires at the end of July, following the World Cup. [ 11 ] Nishino consented to take charge of the Thailand ‘s elder and under-23 national sides on 17 July 2019, became the first gear asian to coach Thailand, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and on 24 January 2020, this contract has been extended until 2022. [ 14 ] On 29 July 2021, Football Association of Thailand announced that it had parted ways with Nishino, which was later explained due to Thailand ‘s poor people performance in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification. [ 15 ]

career statistics [edit ]

baseball club [edit ]

International [edit ]

Japan[2]

Year
Apps
Goals

1977
4
0

1978
8
1

Total
12
1

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of 15 June 2021[16][17]

Team

From

Record

G
W
D
L
Win %

Kashiwa Reysol

1998

2001

109
67
2
40
0 61.47
Gamba Osaka

2002

2011

328
172
67
89
0 52.44
Vissel Kobe

2012

19
5
6
8
0 26.32
Nagoya Grampus

2014

2015

68
26
16
26
0 38.24

Honours [edit ]

coach [edit ]

Kashiwa Reysol

Gamba Osaka

individual [edit ]

Japan Football Hall of Fame: Inducted in 2019

Player

Manager