Title: Koichi Hashiratani Content: is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for the Japan national team. His brother Tetsuji Hashiratani also played for the Japan national team. ==Biography== Hashiratani was born in Kyoto on March 1, 1961. After graduating from Kokushikan University, he started his senior career with Japan Soccer League club Nissan Motors since 1983 and played with Nissan Motors for 9 seasons until transferred to Urawa Reds in 1992, right before J1 League's inauguration. He experienced another transfer to Kashiwa Reysol, then playing in Japan Football League in June 1994. Kashiwa was promoted to J1 League as of the end of 1994 season, and he also made his return to the top flight. He retired as a player end of 1996 season. In August 1979, when Hashiratani was a Kokushikan University student, he was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 1979 World Youth Championship. On February 8, 1981, he debuted for the Japan national team against Malaysia. In 1982, he was selected Japan for 1982 Asian Games. He also played at 1984 Summer Olympics qualification and 1986 World Cup qualification. In September 1986, he was selected Japan for 1986 Asian Games. This Game was his last game for Japan. He played 29 games and scored 3 goals for Japan until 1986. Hashiratani started his coaching career with Montedio Yamagata, where he managed for 3 years from 2001 to 2003. After 6 months of absence, he was named as a manager of Kyoto Purple Sanga in June 2004 when Kyoto was playing in J2 League, then contributed to Kyoto's promotion back to the top flight after the 2005 season. However, due to the poor performances and turnouts of the club, he was dismissed in October about 2 months before the end of 2006 season. He was named as a manager of Tochigi SC playing in Japan Football League in 2007. After two seasons, he made Tochigi eligible to be promoted to J2 League as the club finished 2nd in 2008 season, but was dismissed because he was unable to reach the consent with top managements about his pay, as well as recruiting of new players. He was named as a General Manager of Urawa Reds in December 2009, but was dismissed due to Urawa's poor performance in 2011 season. After spending one season as a commentator in 2012, he was named manager of Giravanz Kitakyushu and managed until 2016 season. ==Statistics== |- |1983||rowspan="9"|Nissan Motors||rowspan="9"|JSL Division 1||18||7||||||||||18||7 |- |1984||17||8||||||||||17||8 |- |1985/86||22||8||||||1||0||23||8 |- |1986/87||22||11||||||1||0||23||11 |- |1987/88||13||3||||||1||0||14||3 |- |1988/89||22||9||||||5||1||27||10 |- |1989/90||11||2||||||4||1||15||3 |- |1990/91||5||0||||||4||2||9||2 |- |1991/92||10||4||||||2||0||12||4 |- |1992||rowspan="3"|Urawa Reds||rowspan="3"|J1 League||colspan="2"|-||4||4||8||6||12||10 |- |1993||18||2||1||0||3||0||22||2 |- |1994||7||0||0||0||0||0||7||0 |- |1994||rowspan="3"|Kashiwa Reysol||Football League||16||1||0||0||1||0||17||1 |- |1995||rowspan="2"|J1 League||31||4||2||1||colspan="2"|-||33||5 |- |1996||25||2||1||0||13||1||39||3 237||61||8||5||43||11||288||77 237||61||8||5||43||11||288||77 |} Japan National Football Team Database |- |1981||9||0 |- |1982||3||0 |- |1983||1||0 |- |1984||5||1 |- |1985||9||2 |- |1986||2||0 |- !Total||29||3 |}