*anese footballer and television commentator

*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (北澤 豪, Kitazawa Tsuyoshi, born 10 August 1968) is a former *anese football player. He played for *an national team. He is currently working on television as a football commentator.

Contents

• 1 Club career
• 2 National team career
• 3 Futsal career
• 4 Career statistics
  • 4.1 Club
  • 4.2 National team
• 5 Honours
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Club career

When Kitazawa was a junior high student, he played for Yomiuri Junior Youth. After being rejected by the club to advance to the club's Youth team, he entered Shutoku High School and played for the school club. After graduating, he joined *an Soccer League side Honda in 1987. He was the top scorer of the league in the 1990–91 season.

He moved to Yomiuri (later Verdy Kawasaki, now Tokyo Verdy) in 1991. Kitazawa, together with his teammates Kazuyoshi Miura, Ruy Ramos, Nobuhiro Takeda, Tetsuji Hashiratani and Bismarck made in the early 1990s the golden era of Verdy who won the J1 League championship (1993 and 1994) and J.League Cup (1992, 1993, and 1994). He finished his playing career as a Verdy player in 2002.

National team career

Kitazawa was capped 58 times and scored 3 goals for the *anese national team between 1991 and 1999. He made his international debut on 2 June 1991 in a friendly against Thailand in Yamagata Park Stadium, under national coach Kenzo Yokoyama. He was a member of the *an team for the 1992 Asian Cup that *an won. He scored his first international goal on 6 November 1992 in the semifinal against China at Hiroshima Stadium.

He took part in *an's unsuccessful campaign to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. He was a member of the Asian final qualification stage that was held centrally in Qatar and played two games. He was on the bench when the Iraqi's injury-time equaliser dashed *an's qualification hope in the last qualifier, in the match that the *anese fans now remember as the Agony of Doha.

Kitazawa was short-listed for the 1998 World Cup, but national coach Takeshi Okada dropped him along with Kazuyoshi Miura and Daisuke Ichikawa at the final training camp in Nyon, Switzerland.

Futsal career

Kitazawa represented *an national futsal team in the 1989 FIFA Futsal World Championship finals hosted by the Netherlands.

Career statistics

Club

National team

Honours

*an national team

• AFC Asian Cup: 1992

References

External links

• Tsuyoshi Kitazawa – FIFA compe*ion record (archived)
• Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at National-Football-Teams.com
• Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at *an National Football Team Database
• Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at J.League (in *anese)