Hiroyuki Yamamoto

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Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Personal information
Full name Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Date of birth September 8, 1977 (1977-09-08) (age 30)
Place of birth    Niigata, Japan
Height 178 cm
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Sengkang Punggol
Number 16
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1998-2001
2002-2004
2005-2006
2007
2008-present
Tokyo University of Agriculture
AIO's Hokuriku
Albirex Niigata (Singapore)
Valiente Toyama
Sengkang Punggol
 ? (?)
59 (4)
53 (8)
10 (0)
 ? (?)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of May 21,2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Hiroyuki Yamamoto (山本寛幸[1] Yamamoto Hiroyuki) (born October 27, 1979) is a Japanese footballer who plays as a defender for Sengkang Punggol of the Singapore S-League.

[edit] Club career

He started his career playing for his faculty team in the Tokyo University, soon moving on into the Japan Football League, the 3rd tier of the Japanese football league system to play for AIO's Hokuriku, where he was nominated for the Select Team in 2005.

In 2005, he was selected by J.League club Albirex Niigata to become a member of its satellite division in Singapore. There, Hiroyuki put in a number of excellent performances, and he was eventually selected to be one of the All West Team in the S-League All Star Game in 2006.

He returned to Japan to play for the regional Hokushin'etsu League team Valiente Toyama in 2007, but was soon making his way back to Singapore to play for Sengkang Punggol in the 2008 season.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.shinnichi.com.sg/html/column_top/html/player.html#p3