Kota Sakurai
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kota Sakurai | ||
| Date of birth | May 26, 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Yokohama, Japan | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2015–2017 | Toronto FC Academy | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017– | Dartmouth Big Green | 30 | (2) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2018 | Toronto FC III | 40 | (3) |
| 2016 | Toronto FC II | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 20, 2019 | |||
Kota Sakurai (born May 26, 1999) is a Japanese professional footballer.
Career
A product of the TFC Academy, Sakurai regularly featured for the club during their League1 Ontario[1][2][3] and Premier Development League[4] campaigns.
With a number of Toronto FC II players unavailable for upcoming fixtures, Sakurai was called up to the squad in June 2016.[5] He made his professional debut on July 2, 2016, appearing for 14 minutes in a 3-0 defeat to Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL.[6] In doing so, he became the first ever Japanese player to feature competitively Toronto FC II.
Sakurai enrolled at Dartmouth College in 2017.[7]
References
- ^ "TFC III stats 2016". League1 Ontario.
- ^ "TFC III Stats 2017". League1 Ontario.
- ^ "TFC III Stats 2018". League1 Ontario.
- ^ "TFC Academy Stats 2016". USL League Two.
- ^ Crawford, Colin (July 2, 2016). "Match Report: Wilmington Hammerheads 3 - 0 TFC II". Toronto FC.
- ^ "Kota Sakurai". Retrieved 2016-07-03.
- ^ "Kota Sakurai". Retrieved 2019-10-20.
  | This biographical article related to a Japanese association football midfielder born in the 1990s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Japanese footballers
- Toronto FC II players
- Association football midfielders
- USL Championship players
- People from Markham, Ontario
- Japanese expatriate footballers
- Expatriate soccer players in Canada
- Dartmouth Big Green men's soccer players
- Japanese football midfielder, 1990s birth stubs