Norio Sasaki
Norio Sasaki in 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 24 May 1958 | ||
| Place of birth | Yamagata Prefecture, Japan | ||
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Current team
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Japan women (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1990 | NTT Kanto | 26 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1997–1998 | Omiya Ardija | ||
| 2006–2008 | Japan women U20 | ||
| 2008–2016 | Japan women | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Norio Sasaki (佐々木 則夫 Sasaki Norio?, born 24 May 1958) is the former head coach of the Japan women's national football team and a former football player. He served as coach of the women's U-20 team starting in 2006, and was named coach of the national team in 2008. He coached the team in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, where they defeated the United States on penalty kicks to win their first FIFA Women's World Cup. He retired as head coach in March 2016.
Sasaki studied at and played for Teikyo High School and Meiji University. At Teikyo, he won the national inter-high school competition as team captain. His high school club also advanced to the semi-final at the All Japan High School Soccer Tournament.
After graduating from Meiji, Sasaki started to work for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone and joined company club NTT Kanto Soccer Club. He was a midfielder/defender. He contributed to the club's promotion to Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1986.
Sasaki retired from playing at the age of 33.
He served as the head coach of Japan Football League side Omiya Ardija in 1998, then took various other positions at Omiya, including the youth team head-coach and the head of development.
In 2006, Sasaki became the assistant coach of Japan women's national football team, as well as the head coach of its U-20 team. In 2007, he was promoted to the head coach of the national team, succeeding Koji Ohasi.
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