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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.

References

Akira Matsunaga (footballer, born 1914) Wikipedia