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Hideo Sakai

1909 - 1996

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Hideo Sakai (堺井 秀雄, Sakai Hideo; June 10, 1909 – June 3, 1996) was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hideo Sakai is the 790th most popular soccer player (down from 351st in 2019), the 690th most popular biography from Japan (down from 348th in 2019) and the 169th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Hideo Sakai is most famous for being the first Japanese American to be awarded the Medal of Honor. In 1944, he was serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was captured by the Japanese and held as a prisoner of war. He was tortured and starved. He was finally rescued and returned to the U.S. in 1945.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hideo Sakai ranks 790 out of 21,273. Before him are Paulo Futre, Javier Mascherano, Lucien Muller, Olivier Giroud, Hans van Breukelen, and László Budai. After him are Masaki Yokotani, Hiroji Imamura, Terry Cooper, Alfréd Schaffer, Brian Clough, and André Abegglen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hideo Sakai ranks 101. Before him are Nelson Algren, Attilio Demaría, Franz Bardon, Johannes Willebrands, Jim Davis, and Mikhail Mil. After him are André Abegglen, Karl Schäfer, Roberto Burle Marx, C. Northcote Parkinson, Dorothy Round, and Sigmund Rascher. Among people deceased in 1996, Hideo Sakai ranks 92. Before him are Stavros Niarchos, Antonín Mrkos, Muhammad al-Badr, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Virginia Henderson, and Ben Johnson. After him are Lo Wei, Jack Nance, Saul Bass, Ai Qing, Karl Frenzel, and Emile Habibi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hideo Sakai ranks 690 out of 6,245. Before him are Minamoto no Yoriie (1182), Kazuyuki Mugita (1984), Nobuo Kawakami (1947), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), Yuriko Koike (1952), and Ishirō Honda (1911). After him are Masaki Yokotani (1952), Yoshihiro Togashi (1966), Kōdō Sawaki (1880), Hiroji Imamura (1949), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), and Matsukata Masayoshi (1835).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Hideo Sakai ranks 169. Before him are Tadao Onishi (1943), Kazuhisa Kono (1950), Akemi Iwata (1954), Teizo Takeuchi (1908), Kazuyuki Mugita (1984), and Nobuo Kawakami (1947). After him are Masaki Yokotani (1952), Hiroji Imamura (1949), Taro Kagawa (1922), Shusaku Hirasawa (1949), Ikuo Takahara (1957), and Aritatsu Ogi (1942).

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