Full Name Tetsuro Kiyooka Residence Canada | Nationality Japanese | |
Born July 30, 1970 (age 46) ( 1970-07-30 ) Kōchi Prefecture, Japan Occupation Businessman and Entrepreneur | ||
Tetsuro Kiyooka (清岡 哲朗, Tetsuro Kiyooka, July 30, 1970) is a Japanese entrepreneur, businessperson and former FIFA Players' Agent (Sports agent) who founded Shootribe Inc in 2000, a sports agency and web design operation. He holds Permanent residency in Canada and his ancestors are the Shizoku in Tosa Province, Japan.
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Sports agent
Kiyooka firmly believed that the Japan national football team needed players who had experiences playing for clubs in European leagues to develop the national team. In 2006, he passed the FIFA Players' Agent exam and registered with The Football Association (England), the Royal Dutch Football Association (Netherlands) and the Japan Football Association as an official agent. After that, he represented top Japanese players such as Keisuke Honda, Maya Yoshida and led them to the football clubs in European leagues.
Japan Pro-Footballers Association (JPFA)
In 2009, Kiyooka was designated as a chief operating officer of the Japan Pro-Footballers Association (JPFA) by Toshiya Fujita, a chairman of the board. He repealed the unfair transfer regulations between the clubs of J.League and the professional players in 2009 and formed the organization as a trade union in 2011. Also, he represented the players of the Japan national football team to protect their rights and payments.
Web development
In 2005, Kiyooka collaborated with NTT Communications to create the football site called Nippon World Soccer on the mobile internet services (i-mode, EZweb) in Japan. The mobile football site acquired over one million users a month in 2006 and became the biggest football mobile site in Japan at that time.