Kenta Hasegawa
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kenta Hasegawa | ||
| Date of birth | September 25, 1965 | ||
| Place of birth | Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1981–1983 | Shimizu Higashi High School | ||
| 1984–1987 | University of Tsukuba | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1991 | Nissan Motors | 33 | (9) |
| 1992–1999 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 207 | (45) |
| Total | 240 | (54) | |
| National team | |||
| 1989–1995 | Japan | 27 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2005–2010 | Shimizu S-Pulse | ||
| 2013– | Gamba Osaka | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kenta Hasegawa (長谷川 健太 Hasegawa Kenta?, born September 25, 1965) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a right-footed forward.
He was educated at and played for Shimizu Higashi High School. He won the national high school championship with his teammates including Katsumi Oenoki and Takumi Horiike. He continued his study and football at University of Tsukuba where he won the Kanto University League title in 1987.
After graduating from the university in 1988, he joined Japan Soccer League side Nissan Motors (current Yokohama F. Marinos). He contributed to the club winning the Emperor's Cup twice in 1988 and 1989. When Japan's first-ever professional league J1 League started, Shimizu S-Pulse was founded in his local city. He joined the club in 1992 and re-united with his high school teammates Oenoki and Horiike. He helped the club to win the J.League Cup in 1996. He retired as a Shimizu player after the club won the second stage of the J1 League 1999 season. He played 207 league matches and scored 45 league goals in 7 seasons at Shimizu.
He was capped 27 times and scored 4 goals for the Japanese national team between 1989 and 1995. His first international appearance came on January 20, 1989 in a friendly against Iran in Teheran. He scored for the first time for his country on June 11, 1989 in a 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Indonesia at Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium in Tokyo. He was a member of the Japan squad who participated in the AFC final qualifying stage for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. In the crucial last match, Hasegawa was substituted in the 59th minute by Masahiro Fukuda and watched from the bench a late Iraqi equaliser dashed Japan's hope to qualify for the finals in the U.S.A., the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.
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