Shimizu S-Pulse
Which team did the player Jungo Fujimoto belong to from 2006 to 2007?
Jungo Fujimoto He has previously played for Shimizu S-Pulse , Nagoya Grampus , Yokohama F . Marinos and the Japan national team . He is a left-footed play-making midfielder . Playing career . Early years . Fujimoto was educated at and played for Toko Gakuen High School , during which time he was also a member of the U-17 Japanese National Team for the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship hosted by Trinidad and Tobago . Fujimoto played three games in the competition but the team was eliminated after the group stage . After graduating high school Fujimoto received an offer from J2 League side Kawasaki Frontale , but he decided to continue his study and play football at the University of Tsukuba . He was a member of the national team for the 2005 Universiade held at İzmir , Turkey . Fujimoto was the top scorer with six goals and was selected as the MVP of the competition . Club . Upon graduating university Fujimoto joined Shimizu S-Pulse in 2006 and inherited jersey number 10 from Masaaki Sawanobori . During his first full professional season Fujimoto played in 28 league games and scored 8 goals . He was awarded the J-League Young Player of the Year Award . He was seriously injured in late season of 2008 and made a comeback goal against Kyoto Sanga FC via direct free kick on 19 August 2009 . Fujimoto left Shizuoka in 2011 and moved west to join defending J.League champions Nagoya Grampus . He spent 3 seasons with Nagoya and scored 14 goals in 94 games as they finished 2nd , 7th and 10th in the league between 2011 and 2013 . 2014 saw him join Yokohama F . Marinos where , now in his 30s , he found his playing time slightly curtailed , scoring 3 goals in 26 games in his first year and then playing only 19 times in his final year in Japans second largest city , once again finding the back of the net 3 times . He signed for Gamba Osaka ahead of the 2016 season and in his first 3 years at the club he was never able to establish himself as a first-team regular for any sustained period of time . He made just 13 league appearances in his first season with the men in blue and black , 14 the following year , before at the age of 34 playing 21 out of Gambas 34 league games to help them to 9th in the final league standings . On August 21st , 2020 - after some months without football - , he signed to join SC Sagamihara . National team . He made his Japanese National Team debut on 24 March 2007 in a 2-0 friendly victory at home to Peru . Fujimoto came on as a substitute in the 85th minute to replace his high school fellow alumnus Shunsuke Nakamura . His next international involvement came when he made brief second-half appearances in both matches in Japans double header in June of that year , the 2-0 win over Montenegro and the 0-0 draw with Colombia . He played once more in 2007 as a 73rd minute replacement in the 4-1 home routing of Egypt . It would be almost 3 years before he next pulled in the blue of Japan in their September 2010 home friendly wins over Paraguay and Guatemala , he was once again a substitute in both games . Following his transfer from S-Pulse to Nagoya Grampus he was named in Japans squad for their victorious 2011 AFC Asian Cup campaign . He came on as a substitute in the final minute of their draw with Jordan in the group stage before earning his first international start in the final of the competition against Australia , a match Japan won 1-0 after extra time . It would be another 9 months before his next international involvement and he again made the starting line up and this time played his first full 90 minutes for Japan in a 1-0 friendly win at home to Vietnam on 7 October 2011 , before playing the final 13 minutes of an 8-0 world cup qualifying victory over Tajikistan 4 days later . 2012 would be his final year to earn international caps . He started and scored his sole international goal in a 3-1 win over Iceland in a home friendly on 24 February before again starting in the surprise 1-0 world cup qualifying defeat to Uzbekistan 5 days later . His last appearance for the Samurai Blue came in a 1-1 draw in a friendly at home to Venezuela on 15 August where he played the final 16 minutes . Club statistics . As of January 2 , 2020 National team statistics . Last Update : 8 February 2019 Trivia . His father Koju was also a footballer who played for Nippon Kokan of the Japan Soccer League , the former top-flight league in Japan . Honors and awards . Individual honors . - J . League Rookie of the Year – 2006 - J . League Best Eleven – 2010 , 2011 International honors . - AFC Asian Cup - 2011 External links . - Japan National Football Team Database