Footballer Bio : Yasuhito Endo
Name Yasuhito Endo
Date of Birth 28 January 1980
Place of birth Kagoshima
Height 178 cm
Position Midfielder
Current club Gamba Osaka (JPN)
Foot Right
International Caps 98
International Goals 9
First international Japan – Argentina (20 November 2002)
Honours:
- J. League Best Eleven – 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- Japanese Footballer of the Year – 2008
- Asian Footballer of the Year – 2009
- AFC Champions League Player of the Tournament – 2008
About Endo…
Yasuhito Endo may never have played club football outside his homeland, but there is little doubt that he is one of the greatest Japanese players of all time. A central midfielder who is equally adept at breaking up opposition attacks as he is at orchestrating player, he is the only man to have been named in the J.League’s team of the season seven years in succession and the reigning AFC Asian Footballer of the Year.
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