Full name Atsushi Yanagisawa Name Atsushi Yanagisawa Spouse Yukari Obata (m. 2003) Years Team Weight 75 kg | Playing position Height 1.77 m Role Football player Date joined 2011 | |
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Date of birth (1977-05-27) May 27, 1977 (age 38) Similar People Koji Nakata, Yukari Obata, Mitsuo Ogasawara, Takayuki Suzuki, Naohiro Takahara | ||
Place of birth Kosugi, Toyama, Japan | ||
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Atsushi Yanagisawa (Japanese: 柳沢 敦, Hepburn: Yanagisawa Atsushi, born May 27, 1977) is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japanese national team. He played as a striker. He is best known for playing the majority of his career at Kashima Antlers, in addition to his spells with Italian side Sampdoria and Messina Peloro.
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Yanagisawa earned 58 caps for the Japan national team, and represented them at two World Cups, the 2000 Olympics and the 2000 Asian Cup.
Yanagisawa was widely berated in Japan for wasting Japan's best opportunity in a match with Croatia in the World Cup first round in 2006, with his post-game explanation – "The ball came at me so quickly" (急にボールが来たので, Kyū ni bōru ga kita no de) – earning its own abbreviation, "QBK," used as a byword for a lame excuse.
He married Yukari Obata, a Japanese fashion model, in December 2003.
