Tatsuma Yoshida
Tatsuma Yoshida was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan on June 9th, 1974 and is the Japanese Association Football Player. At the age of 49, Tatsuma Yoshida biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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During his junior high school years, he played for the Hitachi Junior Youth Soccer Club.
After graduating from Urayasu High School, he joined his local club Kashiwa Reysol in 1993. In 1997, he moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga.
In 1999, he moved to newly promoted J2 League club, Montedio Yamagata. He became a regular for them, playing as a defensive midfielder. During the final day of the 1999 J.League Division 2 season, Yoshida scored a late long range free kick goal against Oita Trinita, denying their chances of being promoted to the J.League Division 1.
In 2002, he moved to Singapore and played for Jurong in the S-League (now Singapore Premier League). After five appearances, he retired at the end of the 2002 season.
Coaching career
Yoshida returned to Kashiwa Reysol in 2003 and spent seven years as director of the club's academy, where he helped to establish it as one of the best in the country. Japan internationals Hiroki Sakai, Masato Kudo and Kosuke Nakamura were groomed during his time there. Yoshida spent a further three years as Reysol's sports director before succeeding as head coach for the 2015 season on a two-year contract.
As head coach, Reysol that season produced a respectable performance at the Asian Champions League (AFC), reaching the quarter-finals before losing to Guangzhou, the eventual winners of the competition that year. Reysol had also finished at the semi finals of that year's Emperor's Cup. However, performances in the domestic league was lacklustre, and Yoshida's stint was cut short.
The following year, he was appointed as head coach of Albirex Niigata, before going on to coach Ventforet Kofu in 2017. Ventforet was relegated to J2 League end of 2017 season and Yoshida was subsequently dismissed in April 2018.
On 30 May 2019, Tatsuma Yoshida was unveiled as the head coach of the Singapore national team. Yoshida's first game in change for the national team began with a 4–3 victory against the Solomon Islands at the National Stadium. Yoshida extended his contract in 2021, but ended his stint by mutual agreement citing family reasons on 28 December that same year shortly after the 2020 AFF Suzuki Cup, whereby the Singapore team reached the semi-finals.
On 3 January 2022, the club confirmed that he will return to the club for the 2022 J2 League season.