Mami_Yamaguchi
Mami Yamaguchi
Japanese footballer (born 1986)
Mami Yamaguchi (山口 麻美, Yamaguchi Mami, born 13 August 1986) is a Japanese football coach and former player. She is currently an assistant coach with the NWSL's Washington Spirit.[2] She played for the Japan national team and last played for Detroit City FC.[3]
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| Full name | Mami Yamaguchi[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1986-08-13) 13 August 1986 (age 37) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Florida State Seminoles | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Nippon TV Beleza | 25 | (14) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Umeå | 44 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Atlanta Beat | 22 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Nippon TV Beleza | 6 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Hammarby | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Okayama Yunogo Belle | 11 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Nippon TV Beleza | 12 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | AFC Ann Arbor | 2 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Detroit City FC | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 140 | (29) | ||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | Japan | 18 | (8) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Yamaguchi previously played for the Florida State Seminoles at the collegiate level, where she won the MAC Hermann Trophy[4] in 2007. She became the first player in Florida State Soccer history to have her jersey retired.[5] She played for Atlanta Beat (WPS) in the United States and Umeå IK, where she won the double, and made it to UEFA Champions Cup Final, and Hammarby in Sweden's Damallsvenskan.[6]
She joined United Women's Soccer amateur club AFC Ann Arbor in 2019,[7] scoring the team's first-ever goal.[8]
On 28 July 2007, Yamaguchi debuted for Japan national team against the United States.[9] She played 18 games and scored 8 goals for Japan until 2011.
Yamaguchi began coaching as a volunteer at Florida State during the 2015-16 season. In 2019, she took an assistant coach position with Livonia City F.C., a club now in the second division of United Women's Soccer.[10] In 2021, she became a player-coach at Detroit City FC.[3]
In April 2023, National Women's Soccer League club Washington Spirit hired Yamaguchi as an assistant coach,[11] reuniting her with former Florida State head coach Mark Krikorian, who had become the Spirit's general manager.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Nippon TV Beleza | 2003 | 18 | 9 | - | - | 18 | 9 | ||||
| 2004 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 7 | 5 | |||||
| Total | 25 | 14 | - | 25 | 14 | ||||||
| Umeå IK | 2008 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 32 | 4 | ||
| 2009 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 4 | |||
| Total | - | 59 | 8 | ||||||||
| Atlanta Beat | 2010 | 22 | 1 | - | - | - | 22 | 1 | |||
| Total | 22 | 1 | - | - | - | 22 | 1 | ||||
| Nippon TV Beleza | 2010 | 6 | 3 | - | 6 | 3 | |||||
| Total | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 3 | |||
| Hammarby | 2011 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 12 | 0 | |||
| Total | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Okayama Yunogo Belle | 2012 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | - | 10 | 4 | |
| Total | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | - | 10 | 4 | ||
| Career total | 129 | 30 | |||||||||
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- Mami Yamaguchi at Soccerway
- "Washington Spirit Adds Mami Yamaguchi to Coaching Staff » Washington Spirit". Washington Spirit. 5 April 2023. Retrieved 6 April 2023.
- @DetroitCityFC (5 May 2021). "Welcome @mamigucchi to Detroit City! Not only will she be playing the midfield for the @detroitcityfcW, she also is an assistant coach for the @UWSLeague2 side. Yamaguchi has played for the Japanese National Team and in the UEFA Champions Cup final in 2008. #DCTID" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "Mami Yamaguchi". MAC Hermann Trophy. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- "Florida State Seminoles Soccer". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
- Zuke, Ryan (21 June 2019). "AFC Ann Arbor player shares special connection with World Cup". MLive Media Group. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- "Mami Yamaguchi Returns to AFC Ann Arbor as a Player-Coach for 2020" (Press release). AFC Ann Arbor. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- Japan Football Association(in Japanese)
- Higgins II, David M. (7 April 2023). "Washington Spirit Hires Mami Yamaguchi as Assistant Coach". Southern Maryland Chronicle. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- Mami Yamaguchi at WorldFootball.net
- Mami Yamaguchi at the Swedish Football Association (in Swedish) (archived)
- Florida State University Seminoles article at the Wayback Machine (archived 27 July 2011)
- Video on YouTube
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