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Minori Sato
Personal information
Full name Minori Sato
Date of birth (1991-03-02) March 2, 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth Gunma, Japan
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Bunyodkor
Number 9
Youth career
2006–2008 Maebashi Ikuei High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009 Thespa Kusatsu 21 (0)
2010 Indiana Invaders 10 (1)
2010–2011 Puebla 1 (0)
2010Gulbene (loan) 7 (10)
2011 Ventspils 12 (0)
2011–2012 Skonto 36 (4)
2013 Dinamo Brest 4 (0)
2014– Bunyodkor 71 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 December 2016

Minori Sato (佐藤 穣, Satō Minori, born March 2, 1991) is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for FC Bunyodkor in the Uzbek League.

Career

Sato started his professional career in the J2 League. In 2010,[1] after a trial with the Primera División de México club Puebla FC, he signed a 4-year contract. The same year he was sent on loan to FB Gulbene, that time playing in the Latvian First League, in order to gain experience before joining Puebla FC back from loan. He scored 10 goals in 7 games there, attracting interest from other Latvian clubs. In March, 2011 he signed a contract with Virsliga club FK Ventspils for one season. He managed to win the Latvian Cup with the team, beating Liepājas Metalurgs in the final.[2] He played 12 matches there, without scoring any goals before being transferred to another Latvian Higher League team Skonto Riga in August 2011. Sato played 38 league matches, scoring 3 goals for Skonto during 2 seasons in the Latvian Higher League with the club. In March 2013 he was transferred to the Belarusian Premier League club Dinamo Brest.[3]

In March 2014 Sato signed a two-year contract with FC Bunyodkor in the Uzbek League,[4][5][6] and upon making his debut became Bunyodkor's 25th foreign representative.[7]

Club statistics

Club

As of match played 26 November 2016[8]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Continental Other1 Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Thespa Kusatsu[9] 2009 J2 League 21 0 1 0 22 0
Gulbene-2005 (loan) 2010 Latvian First League 7 10 1 1 8 11
Ventspils 2011 Latvian Higher League 12 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 19 0
Skonto 2011 Latvian Higher League 13 3 0 0 0 0 13 3
2012 23 0 3 1 0 0 26 1
Total 36 3 3 1 - - 0 0 - - 39 4
Dinamo Brest 2013 Belarusian Premier League 27 0 3 0 30 0
Bunyodkor 2014 Uzbek League 15 1 4 0 - 0 0 0 0 19 1
2015 28 4 5 0 - 7 0 - 40 4
2016 27 5 6 1 - 6 0 - 39 6
Total 71 10 15 1 - - 13 0 0 0 99 11
Career total 175 23 26 3 - - 14 0 3 0 218 26

3Includes Baltic League.

Awards and honours

Club

Gulbene 2005
Ventspils
Skonto FC

References

  1. ^ "Players 4 year signing contract". Retrieved November 12, 2010.
  2. ^ "Ventspils" paraksta līgumus ar japāņiem Sato un Šibamuru (in Latvian) Sportacentrs.com
  3. ^ "All about Skonto FC".
  4. ^ "Бунёдкор" подписал японца. Championat.asia (in Russian). 2014-03-13.
  5. ^ О Экс-игрок брестского "Динамо" Минори Сато подписал контракт с чемпионами Узбекистана. Прессбол (in Russian). 2014-03-13.
  6. ^ "Bunyodkor sign contract with Minori Sato". UZdaily. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  7. ^ "Sato Minori is 25-foreigner". FC Bunyodkor. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
  8. ^ "Japan - M. Sato - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway".
  9. ^ J.League Data SiteTemplate:Ja