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Yasuhiko Okudera

1952 - Today

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Yasuhiko Okudera (奥寺 康彦, Okudera Yasuhiko; born 12 March 1952) is a Japanese former football player and manager. He is the president of J2 League club Yokohama FC and was formerly the president of English club Plymouth Argyle. A midfielder, Okudera was the first Japanese footballer to play professionally in Europe, as well as being the first Asian football player to score in the European Cup, while playing for 1. FC Köln in the 1979 semi-final match against Nottingham Forest and made 32 appearances – scoring nine goals – with the Japan national team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yasuhiko Okudera is the 1,393rd most popular soccer player (up from 1,542nd in 2019), the 940th most popular biography from Japan (up from 983rd in 2019) and the 216th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Yasuhiko Okudera ranks 1,393 out of 21,273. Before him are Tetsuo Sugamata, Masujiro Nishida, Jimmy Mullen, Knut Kroon, Adolfo Baloncieri, and Ramón Muttis. After him are Metin Oktay, José Manuel Pinto, Alberto Gilardino, José Mari Bakero, Hasan Salihamidžić, and Philippe Coutinho.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Yasuhiko Okudera ranks 221. Before him are Randy Savage, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, Francesco Graziani, Salam Fayyad, Marky Ramone, and David Richards. After him are Sharon Osbourne, Ng Man-tat, Semyon Bychkov, Gennady Timchenko, Josip Kuže, and Bruno Giacomelli.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Yasuhiko Okudera ranks 940 out of 6,245. Before him are Tawaraya Sōtatsu (1570), Fumiko Enchi (1905), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Tetsuo Sugamata (1957), Masujiro Nishida (1899), and Kyuichi Tokuda (1894). After him are Arima Harunobu (1567), Tomoji Tanabe (1895), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Mitsuo Watanabe (1953), Gyoji Matsumoto (1934), and Kazuo Saito (1951).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Yasuhiko Okudera ranks 216. Before him are Koichi Kudo (1909), Satoshi Yamaguchi (1959), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955), Tetsuo Sugamata (1957), and Masujiro Nishida (1899). After him are Mitsuo Watanabe (1953), Gyoji Matsumoto (1934), Kazuo Saito (1951), Shunsuke Nakamura (1978), Kuniharu Nakamoto (1959), and Keisuke Honda (1986).

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