Hajime Hosogai ( 細貝 萌, Hosogai Hajime, hold 10 June 1986 ) is a japanese professional football player. He is a flexible player, able to play in his natural character as defender, defensive midfielder, and plays for Thespakusatsu Gunma, and the Japan national team .
Club career [edit ]
Hosogai was amongst the most promise players of Urawa Red Diamonds. Having helped the Red Diamonds to the AFC Champions League in 2007, he played for Urawa at the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup.
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On 23 December 2010, he left Japan and transferred to the german club Bayer 04 Leverkusen, who promptly loaned him out to FC Augsburg. [ 2 ] On 9 September 2011, he scored his first Bundesliga finish against Leverkusen. Playing for the newly promoted bavarian baseball club, Hosogai helped avoiding delegating before returning to Bayer Leverkusen for the 2012–13 season. On 25 July 2016, Hosogai moved to VfB Stuttgart. [ 3 ] He joined Kashiwa Reysol on 24 March 2017. [ 4 ] On 6 December 2018, it was confirmed that Hosogai would join the Thai league golf club Buriram United for the 2019 season. On 12 December 2019, it was announced that Hosogai had joined club Bangkok United on a season-long loan deal .
International career [edit ]
Hosogai has represented Japan at numerous youth levels. He was a member of the Japan team for the 2008 Summer Olympics finals, [ 5 ] and made his debut for the Japan national team in a 1–0 win against Paraguay ( playing in his natural role as cardinal midfielder ) at his family stadium in Saitama on 4 September 2010, after being called up for the first time by caretaker Hiromi Hara and under the auspices of new director Alberto Zaccheroni. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He scored his first goal for the elder national team on 25 January 2011 in the 2011 AFC asian Cup semi-final match against South Korea .
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
- As of 23 February 2017[8][9]
Club
Season
League
Cup1
League Cup2
Continental3
Other4
Total
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Urawa Red Diamonds
2005
3
0
3
0
2
0
–
–
8
0
2006
2
0
4
0
6
0
–
1
0
13
0
2007
8
0
1
0
2
1
3
0
5
0
19
1
2008
26
2
1
0
4
0
3
1
–
34
3
2009
31
2
1
0
6
0
–
–
38
2
2010
28
1
1
0
5
0
–
–
34
1
Total
98
5
11
0
25
1
6
1
6
0
146
7
FC Augsburg
2010–11
7
0
–
–
–
–
7
0
2011–12
32
3
1
0
–
–
–
33
3
Total
39
3
1
0
–
–
–
40
3
Bayer Leverkusen
2012–13
17
0
2
0
–
4
0
–
23
0
Total
17
0
2
0
–
4
0
–
23
0
Hertha BSC
2013–14
33
0
1
0
–
–
–
34
0
2014–15
20
0
2
0
–
–
–
22
0
Total
53
0
3
0
–
–
–
56
0
Bursaspor
2015–16
20
0
–
–
–
–
20
0
Total
20
0
0
0
–
–
–
20
0
VfB Stuttgart
2016–17
10
0
–
–
–
10
0
Total
10
0
–
–
–
10
0
Career total
237
8
17
0
25
1
10
1
6
0
295
10
1Includes Emperor ‘s Cup and DFB-Pokal.
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2Includes J. League Cup. 3Includes AFC Champions League and UEFA Europa League. 4Includes japanese Super Cup, A3 Champions Cup and FIFA Club World Cup .
International [edit ]
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
Japan U-23
2006
1
0
2007
6
1
2008
3
0
Total
10
1
Japan[10]
2010
3
0
2011
7
1
2012
8
0
2013
7
0
2014
5
0
Total
30
1
International goals [edit ]
- Scores and results list Japan’s goal tally first.
Senior team [edit ]
Appearances in major competitions [edit ]
Honours [edit ]
Urawa Red Diamonds
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Japan
- Individual
- Thai League 1 Player of the Month (1): February 2020