Tsuneyasu Miyamoto

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
Personal information
Full name Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
Date of birth (1977-02-07) February 7, 1977
Place of birth Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1992–1994 Gamba Osaka
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–2006 Gamba Osaka 295 (7)
2007–2008 Red Bull Salzburg 21 (0)
2009–2011 Vissel Kobe 42 (1)
Total 358 (8)
International career
1993 Japan U-17 4 (0)
1997 Japan U-20 5 (0)
2000 Japan U-23 1 (0)
2000–2006 Japan 71 (3)
Managerial career
2017–2018 Gamba Osaka U-23
2018– Gamba Osaka
Medal record
Gamba Osaka
WinnerJ1 League2005
Runner-upJ.League Cup2005
Runner-upEmperor's Cup2006
Representing  Japan
AFC Asian Cup
Gold medal – first place2004 China
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (宮本 恒靖, Miyamoto Tsuneyasu; born February 7, 1977) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography

Miyamoto was born in Tondabayashi on February 7, 1977. He joined J1 League club Gamba Osaka from their youth team in 1995. He became a regular player as center back from later 1990s. He also served as a captain. He played 295 matches for the club in 12 seasons. In 2005, the club won the champions J1 League. In 2007, he moved to Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg. In January 2009, he returned to Japan and signed with Vissel Kobe. He retired end of the 2011 season.

Miyamoto played for Japan U-17 national team in the 1993 U-17 World Championship and Japan U-20 national team in the 1997 World Youth Championship. He played full-time in all matches in both tournaments. In September 2000, he was also selected the Japan U-23 national team for 2000 Summer Olympics.

On June 18, 2000, Miyamoto debuted for Japan national team against Bolivia. As a center back, he served as captain for Japan in the 2002 World Cup, after an injury to Ryuzo Morioka, who had begun the tournament as captain. He then continued to captain his country through the 2004 Asian Cup and the 2006 World Cup. At 2004 Asian Cup, he played full-time in all 6 matches and Japan won the champions. At 2006 World Cup, he played the first two group matches of the cup, but was suspended for the third and last match against Brazil after he received yellow cards against Australia and Croatia. Yuji Nakazawa wore the armband in his place. This competition was his last game for Japan. He played 71 games and scored 3 goals for Japan until 2006.

After the retirement, Miyamoto started coaching career at Gamba Osaka in 2015. He became a manager for Gamba Osaka U-23 in 2017. In July 2018, top team manager Levir Culpi was sacked when the club was at the 16th place of 18 clubs. Miyamoto was named new manager as Culpi successor. Miyamoto raised Gamba to the 9th place in 2018 season. In 2020, the club won the 2nd place in J1 League and Emperor's Cup.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Gamba Osaka 1995 J1 League 11040––150
1996 1302070–220
1997 2613040–331
1998 3201040–370
1999 3002020–340
2000 2900040–330
2001 2403020–290
2002 2012020–241
2003 2612051–332
2004 2401000–250
2005 3032040–363
2006 301500051402
Total 2957270341513619
Red Bull Salzburg 2006–07 Austrian Bundesliga 9010–00100
2007–08 12000–30150
2008–09 0020–0020
Total 21030–30270
Vissel Kobe 2009 J1 League 3212050–391
2010 602040–120
2011 401000–50
Japan 421509000561
Career total 35883504318144410

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[1][2][3]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Japan 200020
200130
2002110
2003100
2004192
2005151
2006110
Total713

Managerial statistics

Update; 14 May 2021[4]

Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Gamba Osaka U-23 2017 2018 49131026026.53
Gamba Osaka 2018 2021 117522639044.44
Total 166653665039.16

Honors

Gamba Osaka

Red Bull Salzburg

Japan

Individual

References

  1. ↑ Cite error: The named reference JNFTD was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
  2. ↑ "Tsuneyasu Miyamoto". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman.
  3. ↑ RSSSF
  4. ↑ Tsuneyasu Miyamoto at J.League (in Japanese)

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