Tomonobu Yokoyama (横山 知伸, Yokoyama Tomonobu, 18 March 1985 – 4 January 2024) was a Japanese professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder or centre-back.
 Yokoyama in 2010 | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 18 March 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nerima, Tokyo, Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 4 January 2024 (aged 38) | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defensive midfielder, centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2007 | Waseda University | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Kawasaki Frontale | 76 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Cerezo Osaka | 20 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | Omiya Ardija | 81 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo | 26 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | → Roasso Kumamoto (loan) | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | FC Gifu | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Career
editOn 5 February 2020, FC Gifu confirmed that 34-year old Yokoyama had decided to retire.[1] He died from a brain tumour on 4 January 2024, at the age of 38.[2]
Career statistics
edit| Club | Season | League | Emperor's Cup | J.League Cup | Asia | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Kawasaki Frontale | 2008 | J1 League | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 19 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 41 | 0 | ||
| 2010 | 24 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 1 | ||
| 2011 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 12 | 0 | |||
| Cerezo Osaka | 2012 | J1 League | 9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 15 | 2 | |
| 2013 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 17 | 1 | |||
| Omiya Ardija | 2014 | J1 League | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 26 | 0 | |
| 2015 | J2 League | 41 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 42 | 3 | |||
| 2016 | J1 League | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 26 | 1 | ||
| Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo | 2017 | J1 League | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 30 | 2 | |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | |||
| Roasso Kumamoto (loan) | 2018 | J2 League | 7 | 0 | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | |||
| FC Gifu | 2019 | J2 League | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 210 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 271 | 11 | ||
References
edit- ^ 横山知伸選手、現役引退のお知らせ, fc-gifu.com, 5 February 2020
- ^ 横山知伸 コーチ ご逝去のお知らせ (in Japanese)
- ^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411529 (p. 88 out of 289)
- ^ 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. 128 out of 289)
External links
edit- Tomonobu Yokoyama at Soccerway
- Tomonobu Yokoyama at WorldFootball.net
- Tomonobu Yokoyama at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
- Profile at Kawasaki Frontale
- Profile at Omiya Ardija
- Profile at Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Archived 28 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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