Azusa Iwashimizu
Azusa Iwashimizu (岩清水 梓, Iwashimizu Azusa, born 14 October 1986) is a Japanese footballer who played as a defender for Tokyo Verdy Beleza in the WE League and the Japan national team.
Club career
Iwashimizu was born in
2017
).
National team career
On 18 February 2006, when Iwashimizu was 19 years old, she debuted for
2011 World Cup Final, she was sent off after receiving a red card for slide tackling Alex Morgan. Japan would go on to win the match in the penalty shootout that followed.[4]
Iwashimizu was instrumental in Japan's victory at the 2014 Asian Cup, scoring the winning goal in both the semifinal against China and the final against Australia.[5] She played 122 games and scored 11 goals for Japan until 2016.
Club statistics
- As of 11 November 2012
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Nippon TV Beleza
|
2003 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | 18 | 1 | |
2004
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0 | 0 | - | ||||||
2005
|
16 | 1 | 4 | 0 | - | 20 | 1 | ||
2006
|
17 | 3 | 3 | 0 | - | 20 | 3 | ||
2007
|
19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 1 | |
2008
|
16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | - | 16 | 2 | ||
2009
|
21 | 2 | 4 | 0 | - | 25 | 2 | ||
2010
|
17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 2 | |
2011
|
16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | - | 19 | 1 | ||
2012
|
17 | 1 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Career total | 156 | 14 | 11 | 0 | |||||
National team statistics
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Honors and awards
Team
- Japan women's national football team
- Champion: 2011
- East Asian Football Championship
- Champion: 2010
- East Asian Football Championship
- Nippon TV Beleza
- L.League
- Champions (11): 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Champions: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2017, 2018
- Champions: 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2018
Individual
- L.League
- Best Eleven (13): 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
References
- ^ a b Japan Football Association(in Japanese)
- ^ Azusa Iwashimizu FIFA
- ^ "Azusa Iwashimizu Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ "USA v Japan - as it happened". The Guardian. 17 July 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
- ^ "Japan Wins Women's Asian Cup". The Wall Street Journal. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ List of match in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Archived 11 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine, 2016 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)
External links
- Azusa Iwashimizu – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Azusa Iwashimizu at Soccerway
- Azusa Iwashimizu at WorldFootball.net
- Azusa Iwashimizu at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Japan Football Association
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