Full name Kozo Tashima Name Kozo Tashima Place of birth Kumamoto, Japan Role Football player | Years Team Position Midfielder 1980-1982 Furukawa Electric | |
Date of birth (1957-11-21) November 21, 1957 (age 58) Playing position | ||
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Kozo Tashima (田嶋 幸三, Tashima Kōzō, born November 21, 1957) is a former Japanese football administrator and former player and coach. He played for Japan national team. He was vice president of the Japan Football Association, and succeeded Kuniya Daini as president on 27 March 2016, for a two-year term.
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Career
In 1976, he won the Japanese high school championship with his team from Urawa-South-South high school. After which he then studies sports science at the University of Tsukuba.
In 1979 Tashima debuted for the Japan national football team. Tashima took part in seven international, in which he scored one goal. 1980 through to 1982 he played for Furukawa Electric.
Afterwards he studied from 1983 to 1986 at the German Sport University Cologne and received a B coaching license. As he returned, he was a technical coach for the football club of his alma mater, and taught for several years at Rikkyo University. In 2001, he coached the Japan national under-17 football team, to which he led for the first time since 1995 in the first round of the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship. Since 2011 he has been a member of the Asian Football Confederation Executive Committee.
Tashima has been a FIFA Council member since 2015.