is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography

Nagashima was born in Kobe on April 9, 1964. After graduating from Mikage Technical High School, he joined Regional Leagues club Matsushita Electric (later Gamba Osaka) in 1983. In 1984, the club was promoted to Japan Soccer League. The club won 1990 Emperor's Cup. In 1992, Japan Soccer League was folded and founded new league J1 League. On June 5, 1993, he score a hat-trick against Nagoya Grampus Eight. He became the first player in J1 League to score a hat-trick as Japanese player. In 1994, he moved to Shimizu S-Pulse.

Akihiro Nagashima

In January 1995, Great Hanshin earthquake occurred in his local Kobe. In June, Nagashima moved to Japan Football League club Vissel Kobe to encourage disaster area. In 1996, the club won the 2nd place and was promoted to J1 League. He played 138 games and scored 67 goals for the club. He retired in 2000.

Akihiro Nagashima

On July 27, 1990, Nagashima debuted for Japan national team against South Korea. He played 4 games for Japan until 1991.

Akihiro Nagashima

Statistics

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|1983||rowspan="9"|Matsushita Electric||Regional Leagues||||

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|1984||rowspan="2"|JSL Division 2||||

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|1985/86||||

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|1986/87||JSL Division 1||22||7||||22||7

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|1987/88||JSL Division 2||14||61||0||15||6

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|1988/89||rowspan="4"|JSL Division 1||21||51||0||22||5

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|1989/90||22||150||0||22||15

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|1990/91||21||81||1||22||9

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|1991/92||21||83||3||24||11

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|1992||rowspan="2"|Gamba Osaka||rowspan="2"|J1 League||colspan="2"|-||3||2||9||5||12||7 |- |1993||32||12||0||0||6||5||38||17 |- |1994||rowspan="2"|Shimizu S-Pulse||rowspan="2"|J1 League||28||8||0||0||1||1||29||9 |- |1995||10||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||10||1 |- |1995||rowspan="6"|Vissel Kobe||rowspan="2"|Football League||15||10||3||0||colspan="2"|-||18||10 |- |1996||28||17||3||5||colspan="2"|-||31||22 |- |1997||rowspan="4"|J1 League||32||22||2||1||5||3||39||26 |- |1998||28||10||2||2||3||1||33||13 |- |1999||26||7||0||0||1||0||27||7 |- |2000||9||1||0||0||1||0||10||1 329||137||13||10||32||19||374||166 329||137||13||10||32||19||374||166 |}

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|1990||3||0

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|1991||1||0

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!Total||4||0

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References

Other websites

1964 births

Living people

Footballers from Hyōgo Prefecture

Japan international footballers

J1 League players

Japan Soccer League players

Gamba Osaka players

Shimizu S-Pulse players

Vissel Kobe players