Hotaru Yamaguchi

Hotaru Yamaguchi (山口 蛍, Yamaguchi Hotaru, born October 6, 1990) is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Hotaru Yamaguchi
Yamaguchi lining up for Japan at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Hotaru Yamaguchi
Date of birth (1990-10-06) 6 October 1990
Place of birth Nabari, Mie, Japan
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Vissel Kobe
Number 96
Youth career
2003–2008 Cerezo Osaka
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2015 Cerezo Osaka 140 (11)
2016 Hannover 96 6 (0)
2016–2018 Cerezo Osaka 84 (3)
2019– Vissel Kobe 165 (20)
National team‡
2010–2012 Japan U23 29 (1)
2013–2019 Japan 48 (3)
Honours
Representing  Japan
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place2010 GuangzhouTeam
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 3 December 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 November 2019

Biography

Yamaguchi was born in Nabari on October 6, 1990. He joined J2 League club Cerezo Osaka from their youth team in 2009. Cerezo was promoted to J1 League from 2010. He played many matches as defensive midfielder from 2011. In 2013, he played all 34 matches and was selected Best Eleven award. However Cerezo was relegated to J2 end of the 2014 season. In January 2016, he moved to German Bundesliga club Hannover. However he could not play many matches and Hannover was relegated to 2. Bundesliga end of the 2015/16 season. In summer 2016, he returned to Cerezo and Cerezo was promoted to J1 end of the 2016 season. In 2017, Cerezo won the champions in the J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup. He was also selected for theBest Eleven award. In 2019, he moved to Vissel Kobe. Vissel won the champions in the 2019 Emperor's Cup which is first major title in the club history.

In July 2012, Yamaguchi was selected for the Japan U-23 national team for 2012 Summer Olympics. He played all 6 matches as defensive midfielder and Japan got fourth place. In July 2013, he was selected for the Japan national team for 2013 East Asian Cup. At this tournament, he debuted against China on July 21. In 2014, he was selected for Japan in the 2014 World Cup and played all 3 matches. In 2018, he played at the 2018 World Cup and Japan qualified to the knockout stage.

Career statistics

Club
As of 17 March 2021[2]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other[lower-alpha 1] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Cerezo Osaka 2009 J2 League 3000–––30
2010 J1 League 200020––40
2011 171400020–231
2012 3024260––404
2013 3460081––427
2014 191100080–281
2015 J2 League 35100––20371
2016 19110––20221
2017 J1 League 3225120––393
2018 330101040–390
Total 226141631911404027918
Hannover 96 2015–16 Bundesliga 6000–––60
Vissel Kobe 2019 J1 League 3435221––416
2020 346–1071–427
2021 500010––60
Total 739524171008913
Career total 305212152322114037431
  1. Appearances in J2 Play-offs

International
As of 19 November 2019[3]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Japan 201380
201470
201591
201661
201780
201870
201931
Total483
Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Yamaguchi goal.
List of international goals scored by Hotaru Yamaguchi[4]
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
15 August 2015Wuhan Sports Center Stadium, Wuhan, China South Korea1–11–12015 EAFF East Asian Cup
26 October 2016Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Japan Iraq2–12–12018 FIFA World Cup qualification
319 November 2019Panasonic Stadium Suita, Suita, Japan Venezuela1–41–42019 Kirin Challenge Cup

Honours

Cerezo Osaka

Vissel Kobe

Japan

  • EAFF East Asian Cup: 2013

Japan U-23

Individual

  • EAFF East Asian Cup Most Valuable Player: 2013
  • J.League Best XI: 2013, 2017, 2023[8]

References
  1. "National Team Squad". jfa.or.jp. Japan Football Association. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  2. Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2017 J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 (NSK MOOK)", 8 February 2017, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411420 (p. 145 out of 289)
  3. Japan National Football Team Database(in Japanese)
  4. "Yamaguchi, Hotaru". National Football Teams. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  5. "神戸が悲願の初優勝！井出、武藤のゴールで名古屋に競り勝つ【速報：明治安田J1第33節】". J.League. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
  6. "Andrés Iniesta skippers Vissel Kobe to first trophy in David Villa's final match". AS. 1 January 2020. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  7. "Andres Iniesta lifts Japan Super Cup after nine straight pen misses". ESPN. 8 February 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  8. "2023年Jリーグベスト11は神戸と浦和が最多タイ4名！ 大迫勇也や西川周作ら". GOAL. Retrieved December 5, 2023.

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