Kazuya Maekawa

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Kazuya Maekawa
Full name	Kazuya Maekawa
Date of birth	March 22, 1968 (1968-03-22) (age 40)
Place of birth	Hirado, Nagasaki, Japan
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-1999 2000-2001	Mazda SC/Sanfrecce Hiroshima Oita Trinita	00? 00(?) 075 00(0)
National team
1992-1996	Japan	017 00(0)
Teams managed
2002-2005 2006-present	Oita Trinita"Staff" Sanfrecce Tsuneishi Soccer School
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Kazuya Maekawa (前川和也, Maekawa Kazuya^?, born March 22, 1968 in Hirado, Nagasaki) is a retired Japanese football (soccer) player. He was a goalkeeper.

1 Career
2 Clubs
3 Honors and awards
- 3.1 Team honors

[edit] Career

Maekawa was educated at and played for Hirado High School. After graduating in 1986, he joined Japan Soccer League side Mazda S.C.. When Japan's first-ever professional league J. League started in 1993, Mazda S.C. was transformed to Sanfrecce Hiroshima for whom he continued to play. He had been the first-choice GK for the club since 1989 although he was prone to injuries. He decided to have operation on his shoulder in 1998 and his place was filled in by Takashi Shimoda who kept the place after Maekawa came back. Maekawa was transferred to J. League Division 2 side Oita Trinita in 2000 before retiring from the game after the 2001 season.

He was capped 17 times for the Japanese national team from 1992 to 1996. His first cap came on June 7, 1992 in a friendly against Wales in Matsuyama, Ehime. He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 AFC Asian Cup. He played 2 games after first-choice keeper Shigetatsu Matsunaga was shown a red card in the semi-final against China.

After finishing his playing career, he remained at Trinita and worked in the areas of marketing, operations and developments until 2005. He is now a coach at Sanfrecce Tsuneishi Soccer School, one of the affiliated soccer schools of Sanfrecce Hiroshima. (as of September 2007)