Satoshi Yamaguchi (footballer, born 1978)

is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography
Yamaguchi was born in Sakawa, Kochi on April 17, 1978. He joined JEF United Ichihara (later JEF United Chiba) from their youth team in 1996. He debuted on March 20, when he was 17 year and 354 days old. It was the youngest player to play for J1 League until Yuki Abe made new record in 1998. He became a regular player as center back from 1997. He moved to Gamba Osaka in 2001. The club won the champions 2005 J1 League, 2007 J.League Cup, 2008 and 2009 Emperor's Cup. He was also selected Best Eleven for 3 years in a row (2006-2008). In Asia, in 2008, the club won the champions AFC Champions League and the 3rd place Club World Cup. In 2012, he rejoined his first club, JEF United Chiba and played for the club in 3 seasons. In 2015, he moved to Kyoto Sanga FC and retired end of the 2015 season.

In June 1997, Yamaguchi was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 1997 World Youth Championship. He played as right back of 3 back defense with Tsuneyasu Miyamoto and Kazuyuki Toda full-time in all 5 matches. On May 27, 2009, Yamaguchi debuted for Japan national team against Chile. On May 31, he also played against Belgium. He played 2 games for Japan in 2009.

Statistics

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|1996||rowspan="5"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="5"|J1 League||12||0||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||15||0
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|1997||28||2||1||1||8||0||colspan="2"|-||37||3
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|1998||30||1||1||0||6||1||colspan="2"|-||37||2
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|1999||29||0||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0
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|2000||29||2||3||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||35||2
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|2001||rowspan="11"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="11"|J1 League||22||2||3||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||28||2
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|2002||29||2||2||0||8||1||colspan="2"|-||39||3
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|2003||29||2||2||1||6||1||colspan="2"|-||37||4
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|2004||27||5||3||1||7||1||colspan="2"|-||37||7
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|2005||33||3||3||1||9||0||colspan="2"|-||45||4
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|2006||32||6||5||0||2||0||6||2||45||8
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|2007||33||3||4||0||11||2||colspan="2"|-||48||5
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|2008||34||5||5||2||3||0||12||3||54||10
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|2009||33||2||6||0||2||0||6||1||47||3
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|2010||18||0||5||0||2||0||3||0||28||0
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|2011||30||2||0||0||2||0||5||0||37||2
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|2012||rowspan="3"|JEF United Chiba||rowspan="3"|J2 League||37||5||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||39||5
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|2013||41||6||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||42||6
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|2014||38||2||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||40||2
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|2015||Kyoto Sanga FC||J2 League||17||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||18||1
581||51||50||6||74||6||32||6||727||69
581||51||50||6||74||6||32||6||727||69
|}
Japan National Football Team Database

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|2009||2||0
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!Total||2||0
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References

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Category:1978 births
Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from Kōchi Prefecture
Category:Japan international footballers
Category:J1 League players
Category:J2 League players
Category:JEF United Chiba players
Category:Gamba Osaka players
Category:Kyoto Sanga FC players