Akira Matsunaga (footballer, born 1914)

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Full name Akira Matsunaga Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)		Name Akira Matsunaga
Date of birth (1914-09-21)21 September 1914 Place of birth Yaizu, Shizuoka, Empire of Japan Date of death January 20, 1943(1943-01-20) (aged 28) Place of death Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands

Akira Matsunaga (松永行, Matsunaga Akira, September 21, 1914 – January 20, 1943) was a Japanese football player.

Biography

Matsunaga was born in Shizuoka. was part of the Japan national team for the 1936 Summer Olympics football competition in Berlin. On January 20, 1943 he was killed in action during the Guadalcanal Campaign. Nobuo Matsunaga is his brother.

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