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Mizuho Sakaguchi
阪口 夢穂

Sakaguchi playing in the 2011 World Cup
Personal information
Full name	Mizuho Sakaguchi
Date of birth	(1987-10-15) October 15, 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth	Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003–2004	Speranza FC Takatsuki	21	(7)
2006–2008	Tasaki Perule FC	56	(15)
2009	FC Indiana	2	(1)
2010–2011	Albirex Niigata	28	(10)
2012–2020	Tokyo Verdy Beleza	117	(42)
2021–2022	Omiya Ardija Ventus	2	(0)
International career
2006–2018	Japan	124	(29)
Medal record Tasaki Perule FC Runner-up Nadeshiko League 2007 Winner Empress's Cup 2006 Runner-up Empress's Cup 2007 Albirex Niigata Runner-up Empress's Cup 2011 Nippon TV Beleza Winner Nadeshiko League 2015 Winner Nadeshiko League 2016 Winner Nadeshiko League 2017 Winner Nadeshiko League 2018 Runner-up Nadeshiko League 2012 Runner-up Nadeshiko League 2013 Runner-up Nadeshiko League 2014 Winner Nadeshiko League Cup 2012 Winner Nadeshiko League Cup 2016 Winner Nadeshiko League Cup 2018 Winner Empress's Cup 2014 Winner Empress's Cup 2017 Winner Empress's Cup 2018 Representing  Japan Olympic Games 2012 London Team FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 Germany 2015 Canada AFC Women's Asian Cup 2014 Vietnam 2018 Jordan 2008 Vietnam Asian Games 2010 Guangzhou Team 2006 Doha Team 2014 Incheon Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of December 31, 2018

Mizuho Sakaguchi (阪口 夢穂, Sakaguchi Mizuho, born October 15, 1987) is a former Japanese footballer who played as a midfielder. She last played for Omiya Ardija Ventus in the WE League and the Japan national team.

Club career

Sakaguchi was born in Sakai on October 15, 1987. In 2003, at the age of 15, she debuted in the L.League at Speranza FC Takatsuki. After graduating from high school, she joined Tasaki Perule FC in 2006. She was selected Best Eleven in 2007. However, the club was disbanded in 2008 due to financial strain. She went to the United States and joined USL W-League club FC Indiana in 2009. In 2010, she returned to Japan and joined Albirex Niigata. She was selected Best Eleven in 2011. In 2012, she moved to Nippon TV Beleza. She was selected MVP awards for 3 years in a row (2015-2017). She was also selected Best Eleven for 5 years in a row (2013-2017).

National team career

In July 2006, Sakaguchi was selected to be on the Japan national team for the 2006 Asian Cup. At this competition, on July 19, she debuted and scored 2 goals against Vietnam. She played in the 2011 World Cup where Japan won the championship; Sakaguchi scored one of the penalties in the shootout against United States in the final. She also played in the 2015 World Cup where Japan came second. She was also part of the silver medal-winning 2012 Summer Olympic team. From June 2016, she was given the number 10 shirt for Japan by new manager Asako Takakura. She played 124 games and scored 29 goals for Japan until 2018.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 29 June 2022

International

As of match played 21 April 2018

Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sakaguchi goal.

List of international goals scored by Mizuho Sakaguchi

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	July 19, 2006	Hindmarsh Stadium	Vietnam	3–0	5–0	2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup
2				4–0
3	July 21, 2006	Hindmarsh Stadium	Chinese Taipei	6–1	11–1
4				10–1
5	November 30, 2006	Al-Arabi Stadium, Doha	Jordan	5–0	13–0	2006 Asian Games
6				6–0
7				7–0
8				9–0
9				11–0
10	December 4, 2006	Al-Gharafa Stadium, Al-Rayyan	Thailand	1–0	4–0
11	February 14, 2007	Cyprus	Scotland	1–0	2–0	Friendly
12				2–0
13	August 12, 2007	National Olympic Stadium (Tokyo)	Thailand	5–0	5–0	Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
14	March 10, 2008	Dasaki Stadium	Russia	1–0	3–1	2008 Cyprus Cup
15	November 14, 2010	Huangpu Sports Center, Guangzhou	Thailand	3–0	4–0	2010 Asian Games
16	September 3, 2011	Jinan Olympic Sports Center	South Korea	1–0	2–1	Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Asian Qualifiers
17	August 6, 2012	Wembley Stadium	France	2–0	2–1	2012 Summer Olympics
18	September 26, 2013	Chiba Soga Football Stadium	Nigeria	2–0	2–0	Friendly
19	May 18, 2014	Gò Đậu Stadium	Jordan	3–0	7–0	2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup
20				6–0
21	September 13, 2014	Yamagata Park Stadium	Ghana	2–0	5–0	Friendly
22	September 18, 2014	Namdong Asiad Rugby Field, Incheon	Jordan	3–0	12–0	2014 Asian Games
23				4–0
24				11–0
25	September 22, 2014	Munhak Stadium, Incheon	Chinese Taipei	1–0	3–0
26	September 29, 2014	Football Stadium, Incheon	Vietnam	1–0	3–0
27	June 23, 2015	BC Place	Netherlands	2–0	2–1	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
28	November 29, 2015	Kras Stadion	Netherlands	1–2	1–3	Friendly
29	April 13, 2018	Amman International Stadium, Amman	Australia	1–0	1–1	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup

Honours

Tasaki Perule FC

• Empress's Cup: 2007

Japan

• FIFA Women's World Cup: 2011; Runner-up: 2015
• Asian Games: 2010; Silver Medal 2006
• EAFF Women's Football Championship: 2008
• AFC Women's Asian Cup

Champion: 2014

Individual

• L.League Best Eleven: 2007, 2011, 2013

See also

• List of women's footballers with 100 or more caps

References

1. ^ Japan Football Association(in Japanese)
2. "USA v Japan - as it happened". Guardian. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
3. Mizuho Sakaguchi FIFA
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5. List of match in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 試合日程・結果 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2018-08-11), 2016, 2017 Archived 2019-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, 2018 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
6. "Japan 5–0 Vietnam". 2007-09-30. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
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External links

• Mizuho Sakaguchi – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Mizuho Sakaguchi at Soccerway
• Mizuho Sakaguchi at WorldFootball.net
• Mizuho Sakaguchi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Japan Football Association

Japan squads

v t e Japan squad – 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup fourth place 1 Yamago 2 Isozaki 3 Shimokozuru 4 Shikata 5 Yano 6 Sakai 7 Ando 8 Yanagita 9 Arakawa 10 Sawa 11 Otani 12 Fukumoto 13 Nakaoka 14 Iwashimizu 15 Suzuki 18 Miyama 19 Ohno 20 Nagasato 21 Akiyama 29 Sakaguchi Coach: Ohashi v t e Japan squad – 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 Fukumoto 2 Isozaki (c) 3 Kinga 4 Yano 5 Yanagita 6 Hara 7 Miyamoto 8 Sakai 9 Arakawa 10 Sawa 11 Otani 12 Yamago 13 Ando 14 Toyoda 15 Iwashimizu 16 Miyama 17 Nagasato 18 Ohno 19 Sakaguchi 20 Utsugi 21 Amano Coach: Ohashi v t e Japan squad – 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup third place 1 Fukumoto 2 Kinga 3 Ikeda (C) 4 Iwashimizu 6 Kato 8 Miyama 9 Arakawa 10 Sawa 11 Ohno 12 Yamago 14 Utsugi 16 Nagasato 17 Ando 18 Yanagita 20 Sakaguchi 22 Kaihori 23 Kitamoto 24 Maruyama 25 Shimokozuru 27 Sameshima 29 Kumagai 36 Kawasumi 43 Goto Coach: Sasaki v t e Japan women's football squad – 2008 Summer Olympics – Fourth place 1 Fukumoto 2 Kinga 3 Ikeda (c) 4 Iwashimizu 5 Yanagita 6 Kato 7 Ando 8 Miyama 9 Arakawa 10 Sawa 11 Ohno 12 Maruyama 13 Hara 14 Yano 15 Sakaguchi 16 Utsugi 17 Nagasato 18 Kaihori Coach: Sasaki v t e Japan squad – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup winners (1st title) 1 Yamago 2 Kinga 3 Iwashimizu 4 Kumagai 5 Yano 6 Sakaguchi 7 Ando 8 Miyama 9 Kawasumi 10 Sawa (c) 11 Ohno 12 Fukumoto 13 Utsugi 14 Kamionobe 15 Sameshima 16 Tanaka 17 Nagasato 18 Maruyama 19 Takase 20 Iwabuchi 21 Kaihori Coach: Sasaki v t e Japan women's football squad – 2012 Summer Olympics – Silver medalists 1 Fukumoto 2 Kinga 3 Iwashimizu 4 Kumagai 5 Sameshima 6 Sakaguchi 7 Ando 8 Miyama (c) 9 Kawasumi 10 Sawa 11 Ohno 12 Yano 13 Maruyama 14 Tanaka 15 Takase 16 Iwabuchi 17 Ōgimi 18 Kaihori Coach: Sasaki v t e Japan squad – 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup winners (1st title) 1 Fukumoto 2 Ariyoshi 3 Iwashimizu 4 Obara 5 Kamionobe 6 Sakaguchi 7 Maruyama 8 Miyama 9 Kawasumi 10 Sawa 11 Kira 12 Nakajima 13 Takase 14 Kiryu 15 Sugasawa 16 Naomoto 17 Ōgimi 18 Kaihori 19 Utsugi 20 Kawamura 21 Yamane 22 Norimatsu 23 Kohata 24 Sugita 25 Goto Coach: Sasaki v t e Japan squad – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup runners-up 1 Fukumoto 2 Kinga 3 Iwashimizu 4 Kumagai 5 Sameshima 6 Sakaguchi 7 Ando 8 Miyama (c) 9 Kawasumi 10 Sawa 11 Ohno 12 Kamionobe 13 Utsugi 14 Tanaka 15 Sugasawa 16 Iwabuchi 17 Ōgimi 18 Kaihori 19 Ariyoshi 20 Kawamura 21 Yamane 22 Nagasato 23 Kitahara Coach: Sasaki v t e Japan squad – 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup winners (2nd title) 1 Ikeda 2 Utsugi 3 Sameshima 4 Kumagai (c) 5 Ichise 6 Ariyoshi 7 Nakajima 8 Iwabuchi 9 Kawasumi 10 Mi. Sakaguchi 11 Tanaka 12 Naomoto 13 Sugasawa 14 Hasegawa 15 Mo. Sakaguchi 16 Sumida 17 Takagi 18 Yamashita 19 Masuya 20 Yokoyama 21 Hirao 22 Shimizu 23 Miyake Coach: Takakura v t e Japan squad – 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 Ikeda 2 Utsugi 3 Sameshima 4 Kumagai (c) 5 Ichise 6 Sugita 7 Nakajima 8 Iwabuchi 9 Sugasawa 10 Sakaguchi 11 Kobayashi 12 Minami 13 Takarada 14 Hasegawa 15 Momiki 16 Miyagawa 17 Miura 18 Yamashita 19 Endō 20 Yokoyama 21 Hirao 22 Shimizu 23 Miyake Coach: Takakura

• 1987 births
• Living people
• Japanese women's footballers
• Japan women's international footballers
• Nadeshiko League players
• USL W-League (1995–2015) players
• Speranza Osaka-Takatsuki players
• Tasaki Perule FC players
• Albirex Niigata Ladies players
• Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza players
• Japanese expatriate women's footballers
• Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the United States
• FIFA Women's World Cup–winning players
• 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
• 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players
• 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players
• Olympic footballers for Japan
• Olympic medalists in football
• Olympic silver medalists for Japan
• Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
• Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
• Asian Games silver medalists for Japan
• Asian Games medalists in football
• Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
• Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
• Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
• Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games
• Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games
• Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games
• FIFA Women's Century Club
• Women's association football midfielders
• Sportspeople from Sakai, Osaka
• Association football people from Osaka Prefecture
• F.C. Indiana players
• 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
• Nadeshiko League MVPs
• 21st-century Japanese sportswomen