Full name Toshinobu Katsuya Role Football player Place of birth Nagasaki, Japan Height 1.76 m | Weight 76 kg Name Toshinobu Katsuya Position Defender | |
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Date of birth (1961-09-02) September 2, 1961 (age 54) 1977-1979 Shimabara Commerce High School 1980-1983 Osaka University of Commerce | ||
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Toshinobu Katsuya (勝矢 寿延, Katsuya Toshinobu, born September 2, 1961) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a defender.
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Career
He was educated at and played for Shimabara Commerce High School and Osaka University of Commerce. After graduating in 1984, he joined Japan Soccer League side Honda but moved to fellow JSL side Nissan Motor (current Yokohama F. Marinos) in 1991. He was transferred to Júbilo Iwata in 1994, then to Cerezo Osaka in 1998, and retired from the game at the end of the 1998 season.
Katsuya was capped 27 times for the Japanese national team between 1985 and 1993, and was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 AFC Asian Cup. He played 3 matches in the competition.
He also represented Japan in the 1989 FIFA Futsal World Championship finals hosted by the Netherlands.
He filled in for injured left back Satoshi Tsunami in the final qualifying stage of the AFC for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He was on the pitch when Japan's hope to play in the finals was dashed by an injury-time Iraqi equaliser in the last qualifier, the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.
Katsuya works at Cerezo Osaka as a coach.