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Norio Sasaki

1958 - Today

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Norio Sasaki (佐々木 則夫, Sasaki Norio; born 24 May 1958) is a Japanese football coach and former player. He is best known for leading the Japanese women's national team to their first and only FIFA Women's World Cup win in 2011 over the United States on penalty shootouts. He retired as head coach in March 2016 after eight years. Sasaki also coached the Japan women's U-20 national team starting in 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Norio Sasaki is the 287th most popular coach (down from 264th in 2024), the 1,669th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,422nd in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Coach.

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Among COACHES

Among coaches, Norio Sasaki ranks 288 out of 471. Before him are Jill Ellis, Martin O'Neill, Paweł Janas, José Carlos Serrão, Pepe Mel, Tomás Boy, and Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov. After him are Stuart Baxter, Nicanor de Carvalho, Adrie Koster, Italo Galbiati, and John Jensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Norio Sasaki ranks 390. Before him are Janez Potočnik, Chris Buck, Michala Petri, Sergei Garmash, Yuval Steinitz, and María Caridad Colón. After him are Jürgen Hingsen, Paweł Edelman, Leslie David Baker, Alexander Tarasov, Steve Sem-Sandberg, and Lam Jones.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Norio Sasaki ranks 1,669 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshiyuki Matsuyama (1966), Futaba Kioka (1965), Takao Kobayashi (1961), Tsuyoshi Nakao (1983), Midori Ito (1969), and Takeshi Watanabe (1972). After him are Akihiko Hoshide (1968), Yuji Takada (1954), Takashi Yamazaki (1964), Shogo Sakurai (1984), Daijiro Kato (1976), and Yuto Nagatomo (1986).

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Among COACHES In Japan

Among coaches born in Japan, Norio Sasaki ranks 1. After him are Hiroshi Ohashi (1959), Tsutomu Ogura (1966), Tatsuma Yoshida (1974), Keiichiro Nuno (1960), Shuhei Yomoda (1973), Kazuaki Yoshinaga (1968), and Riki Takagi (1978).

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