Shunzo Ono

Shunzo Ono

Personal information
Full name	Shunzo Ono
Date of birth	(1965-03-29) March 29, 1965
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender (retired)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1983-1995	Sumitomo Metals / Kashima Antlers
1996	Kyoto Purple Sanga
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Shunzo Ono (大野 俊三, Ōno Shunzō, born March 29, 1965 in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan) is a former Japanese football player. He was a centre back.

Career

He was educated at and played for Narashino High School. After graduating in 1983, he joined Japan Soccer League side Sumitomo Metals When Japan's first-ever professional league J. League Division 1 started in 1993, Sumitomo Metals was transformed to Kashima Antlers for whom he continued to play. After the end of the inaugural season, he was chosen as a member of the 1993 J-League Team of the Year.

He moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga in 1996 and played there for one season before retiring from the game.

He was never capped for Japan although he played two practice matches against Real Betis and Xerez CD in Spain in September 1993 as a member of the Japan team.

After his playing career, he became the owner of an izakaya (Japanese pub). He now works as a soccer commentator and personality on a local radio station, and Director of the Kashima Heights Sports Plaza.

Club career statistics

Template:Football player club statistics 1 Template:Football player club statistics 2 |- |1983||rowspan="9"|Sumitomo Metals||rowspan="2"|JSL Division 2|||||||||||||||| |- |1984|||||||||||||||| |- |1985/86||JSL Division 1|||||||||||||||| |- |1986/87||JSL Division 2|||||||||||||||| |- |1987/88||rowspan="2"|JSL Division 1|||||||||||||||| |- |1988/89|||||||||||||||| |- |1989/90||rowspan="3"|JSL Division 2||30||6||||||1||0||31||6 |- |1990/91||25||0||||||2||0||27||0 |- |1991/92||26||2||||||2||0||28||2 |- |1992||rowspan="4"|Kashima Antlers||rowspan="4"|J. League 1||colspan="2"|-||1||0||6||0||7||0 |- |1993||35||1||5||0||0||0||40||1 |- |1994||29||0||0||0||1||0||30||0 |- |1995||25||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||25||0 |- |1996||Kyoto Purple Sanga||J. League 1||10||0||2||0||4||0||16||0 Template:Football player club statistics 3180||9||8||0||16||0||204||9 Template:Football player club statistics 5180||9||8||0||16||0||204||9 |}

Personal honors

• J. League Best Eleven - 1993

Team honors

Sumitomo Metals/Kashima Antlers

• Japan Soccer League Second Division - 1984, 1986/87