Genta Miura

Genta Miura
三浦 弦太
Personal information
Full name Genta Miura
Date of birth (1995-03-01) 1 March 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth Toyohashi, Japan
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Gamba Osaka
Number 5
Youth career
2010–2012 Osaka Toin High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2016 Shimizu S-Pulse 45 (0)
2017– Gamba Osaka 178 (5)
International career‡
2017– Japan 10 (1)
Medal record
Representing  Japan
AFC Asian Cup
Silver medal – second place 2019 United Arab Emirates
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 November 2022
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 December 2019

Genta Miura (三浦 弦太, Miura Genta, born 1 March 1995 in Toyohashi) is a Japanese footballer who is the captain of J1 League side Gamba Osaka. He is also a Japanese international and his regular playing position is centre back.[1][2]

Club career

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Born in Toyohashi in Aichi, central Japan, Miura moved to Osaka during his high school years. After graduating from Osaka Toin High School, he was signed by J1 side Shimizu S-Pulse on 2013.

Miura played in 16 league matches across his first 3 seasons in Shizuoka before establishing himself as a regular in 2016 following the club's relegation to Japan's second tier. He played 29 J2 matches to help S-Pulse to 2nd place in the final standings and promotion back to Japan's top flight.

His performances for Shimizu brought him to the attention of Gamba Osaka who signed him ahead of the 2017 season.[3] Miura played in all 34 league games as well as 11 in the cup in his first season in Osaka. Gamba changed head coaches ahead of the 2018 campaign with Brazilian Levir Culpi taking over from the long-serving Kenta Hasegawa and he named Miura as his captain, taking over the role from veteran Yasuhito Endō.

Miura once again played every league game in 2018 which would prove to be a disappointing year for Gamba who struggled badly in the first half of the year under Culpi's leadership but improved markedly towards the end of the campaign under new head-coach Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, eventually ending up in 9th place in the final standings.[1]

National Team career

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Miura earned his first call up to Japan's national team, then managed by Vahid Halilhodžić, ahead of the 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship and debuted in the 2-1 win over China on 12 December. He also played in the 4-1 defeat to South Korea 4 days later which saw Japan finish as runners-up in the tournament.[citation needed]

His next international involvement came in September 2018 under new national team coach Hajime Moriyasu. Miura played the full 90 minutes of a 3-0 home friendly win over Costa Rica and subsequently featured in the 4-3 victory over Uruguay in October and the 4-0 rout of Kyrgyzstan in November.[4]

Miura was named in Japan's squad for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.[5][6] He played one game at the tournament, the 2-1 victory over Uzbekistan on 17 January 2019.[7]

Club statistics

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As of match played 5 November 2022[8][1]
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Japan League Emperor's Cup J. League Cup Asia Other Total
2013 Shimizu S-Pulse J1 League 2 0 0 0 1 0 - - 3 0
2014 7 0 1 0 0 0 - - 8 0
2015 7 0 0 0 3 0 - - 10 0
2016 J2 League 29 0 2 0 - - - 31 0
Total 45 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 52 0
2017 Gamba Osaka J1 League 34 2 2 0 2 0 7 1 - 45 3
2018 34 0 1 1 6 0 - - 41 1
2019 31 1 1 0 9 2 - - 41 3
2020 20 2 2 0 2 0 - - 24 2
2021 26 0 1 0 2 0 5 0 1 0 35 0
2022 33 0 2 0 4 1 - - 39 1
2023 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 0
Total 178 5 9 1 25 3 12 1 1 0 225 10
Career total 223 5 12 1 29 3 12 1 1 0 277 10

Reserves performance

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Club performance League Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals
Japan League Total
2014 J.League U-22 Selection J3 8 1 8 1
2015 3 0 3 0
Career total 11 1 11 1

National team statistics

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Last Update: 18 December 2019[4]

Japan national team
Year Apps Goals
2017 2 0
2018 3 0
2019 5 1
Total 10 1

International goals

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Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first.[9]
No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 10 December 2019 Busan Gudeok Stadium, Busan, South Korea  China 2–0 2–1 2019 EAFF E-1 Football Championship

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Genta Miura Soccerway Player Statistics". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Genta Miura Gamba Osaka Player Profile". Gamba Osaka (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Gamba Osaka News – Genta Miura Signing". Gamba Osaka (in Japanese). 6 January 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  4. ^ a b Japan National Football Team Database(in Japanese)
  5. ^ "Japan announce squad for UAE 2019". AFC. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  6. ^ "SAMURAI BLUE森保監督、「成長しながら王座奪還を目指す」" (in Japanese). JFA. 13 December 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  7. ^ "Japan 2-1 Uzbekistan". AFC. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  8. ^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑", 10 February 2016, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411338 (p. 164 out of 289)
  9. ^ "Miura, Genta". National Football Teams. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
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