Profile Shinji Kagawa

Personal information :

Full name : Shinji Kagawa
Date of birth : 17 March 1989
Place of birth : Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Japan
Height : 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position : Attacking midfielder
Current club : Borussia Dortmund
Number : 23
Youth career :
2001–2005 FC Miyagi Barcelona
Senior career :
2006–2010 Cerezo Osaka
2010– Borussia Dortmund
National team :
2006–2009 Japan U-20
2008– Japan U-23
2008– Japan

Club career

Kagawa began playing football in his initial college years. He stringed Kobe NK Football Club and subsequent shifted to FC Miyagi Barcelona in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Cerezo Osaka rapidly detected his talent and gestured him at the age of 17. He was the first actor in Japan to clue a businessman contract ago graduating high college, unless players promoted from youth teams of the J. League clubs. In 2007 season, he accrued a regular location but the club missed the advertisement to the J. League Division 1. On 23 August 2010, he prepared his debut arrival in the German Bundesliga, beginning for his fresh club Borussia Dortmund. After scoring his first pair competitive targets for the club in the Europa League qualifying tie against Qarabağ Ağdam, he lasted this model with his first target in the Bundesliga suit against Wolfsburg, which Dortmund won 2–0. In the Revierderby against archrival Schalke 04, which Dortmund won 3-1, Kagawa said pre-match that he would score pair targets, he thereafter went on to score double, earning him one of the fan's favorites.

International career

Kagawa played as a member of the Japan national under-20 football team in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup held in Canada. In 2008 he was also chosen to play as a member of the Japanese team for the 2008 Summer Olympics. On 24 May 2008 he prepared his senior global debut in a friendly Kirin Cup match. Japan won the suit against Côte d'Ivoire 1–0. He was not chosen in Takeshi Okada's final 23 squad for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. In September 2010 he scored the merely target of the game in Japan's 1–0 win across Paraguay in Yokohama.

2011 AFC Asian Cup

He was included in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup via bus Alberto Zaccheroni. In the quarterfinals against Qatar, he scored two goals. The game ended 3-2, a win for Japan. In the semifinal against South Korea, Kagawa snapped his metatarsal and missed the final where Japan defeat Australia afterwards extra-time.