Full name Yasuharu Sorimachi Height 1.73 m Weight 64 kg | Name Yasuharu Sorimachi Role Football manager | |
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Date of birth (1964-03-08) March 8, 1964 (age 51) Current team Matsumoto Yamaga (manager) Team coached Matsumoto Yamaga FC (Manager, since 2012) | ||
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Japan u 23 friendly match feb 2008
Yasuharu Sorimachi (反町 康治, Yasuharu Sorimachi, born March 8, 1964) is a former Japanese football player and manager who currently manages Japanese club Matsumoto Yamaga FC. A midfielder, He played for Japan national team 4 times between 1990 and 1991. At club level, he scored 23 goals from 188 appearances in the domestic leagues. He subsequently became a manager and has worked for Albirex Niigata, Shonan Bellmare and Japan national under-23 football team.
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Career
Sorimachi was educated at and played for Shimizu Higashi High School and Keio University. At the high school, he won the national high school championship with his teammates Shigeo Sawairi and Tatsuya Mochizuki.
Sorimachi began his senior career with Japan Soccer League side All Nippon Airways in 1987. He helped All Nippon Airways gain promotion to the top flight in 1988. When Japan's first-ever professional league J1 League started in 1993, All Nippon Airways was transformed to Yokohama Flügels for whom he continued to play. While at Flügels, he won the Emperor's Cup in 1993. He moved to Bellmare Hiratsuka (now Shonan Bellmare) in 1994. He helped the club to win the Emperor's Cup in 1994, and the Asian Cup Winners Cup in 1996.
He was capped 4 times for the Japanese national team between 1990 and 1991. His first international appearance came on 27 July 1990 in a friendly against South Korea.
Managerial statistics
Update; December 31, 2015