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Kunishige Kamamoto

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Kunishige Kamamoto (釜本 邦茂, Kamamoto Kunishige; born 15 April 1944) is a former Japanese football player, manager, and politician. He won the bronze medal with the Japan national team at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, finishing as the tournament's top scorer with seven goals, and is the all-time leading goalscorer for Japan. Kamamoto served as the Vice-President of the Japan Football Association from July 1998 to July 2008. In 2005, he was inducted in the Japan Football Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kunishige Kamamoto is the 167th most popular soccer player (down from 110th in 2019), the 151st most popular biography from Japan (down from 104th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

Kunishige Kamamoto is most famous for his role in the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 167 out of 21,273. Before him are Luigi Riva, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Héctor Scarone, Vahid Halilhodžić, John Barnes, and Dennis Bergkamp. After him are Yasuo Takamori, Shoichi Nishimura, Robert Lewandowski, Miroslav Klose, Pepe, and Masao Uchino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 75. Before him are Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Serge Haroche, Antonio Damasio, Askar Akayev, Sylvie Vartan, and Luigi Riva. After him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Jonathan Demme, David J. Wineland, Marc Ouellet, R. Lee Ermey, and Raymond Moody.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 151 out of 6,245. Before him are Kobayashi Issa (1763), Sonny Chiba (1939), Emperor Kōrei (-341), Tarō Asō (1940), Abe no Seimei (921), and Junichiro Koizumi (1942). After him are Nobusuke Kishi (1896), Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835), Yasuo Takamori (1934), Sen no Rikyū (1522), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), and Ashikaga Takauji (1305).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Kunishige Kamamoto ranks 10. Before him are Ko Arima (1917), Yukio Tsuda (1917), Masao Ono (1923), Jiro Miyake (1900), Usaburo Hidaka (null), and Hiroaki Sato (1932). After him are Yasuo Takamori (1934), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), Masao Uchino (1934), Takashi Furukawa (1981), Takashi Takabayashi (1931), and Teiichi Matsumaru (1909).

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