Masayuki Okano

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Masayuki Okano (岡野雅行, born 25 July 1972 in Kanagawa) is a Japanese football striker.

He was capped 27 times and scored 3 goals for the Japanese national team between 1995 and 1999, including 29 minutes as a substitute against Croatia at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

In the final qualifier match for France 98 against Iran, he scored the golden goal that brought Japan to their first ever World Cup finals.

Contents 1 Clubs 2 National team 3 Honors and awards 3.1 Individual Honors 4 External link

[edit] Clubs

• 1991-1993: Nihon University
• 1994-2001: Urawa Red Diamonds
• 2001-2003: Vissel Kobe
• 2004-present: Urawa Red Diamonds

[edit] National team

• 1996 Asian Cup
• 1998 FIFA World Cup

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Individual Honors

• J-League Best Eleven: 1996

[edit] External link

• Career history at National Football Teams

Urawa Reds - Current Squad
1 Yamagishi | 2 Tsuboi | 3 Hosogai | 4 Tulio | 5 Nenê | 6 Yamada | 7 Sakai | 8 Ono | 9 Nagai | 10 Ponte | 11 Tanaka | 12 Tsutsumi | 13 Suzuki | 14 Hirakawa | 15 Escudero | 16 Soma | 17 Hasebe | 18 Koike | 19 Uchidate | 20 Horinouchi | 21 Washington | 22 Abe | 23 Tsuzuki | 24 Sakamoto | 25 Akahoshi | 26 Nakamura | 27 Nishizawa | 28 Kato | 29 Otani | 30 Okano | Manager: Osieck

	Japan squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Kojima | 2 Narahashi | 3 Soma | 4 Ihara | 5 Omura | 6 Yamaguchi | 7 Ito | 8 Nakata | 9 Nakayama | 10 Nanami | 11 Ono | 12 Lopes | 13 Hattori | 14 Okano | 15 Morishima | 16 Saito | 17 Akita | 18 Jo | 19 Nakanishi | 20 Kawaguchi | 21 Narazaki | 22 Hirano | Coach: Okada