Nagasato playing for Wolfsburg in 2015
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 15 July 1987 | ||
Place of birth | Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan | ||
Height | 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Frankfurt | ||
Number | 9 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2009 | NTV Beleza | 110 | (69) |
2010–2013 | 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam | 71 | (48) |
2013–2014 | Chelsea | 18 | (5) |
2015 | Wolfsburg | 9 | (4) |
2015– | Frankfurt | 1 | (1) |
National team‡ | |||
2004– | Japan | 123 | (54) |
Honours
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 February 2015. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 09:51, 4 June 2015 (UTC) |
Yūki Nagasato (永里 優季 Nagasato Yūki?) (born 15 July 1987) is a Japanese women's football striker. She plays for Bundesliga club FFC Frankfurt. She is a member of the Japan women's national football team, whom she represented in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, in which they defeated United States in the final.
She played for Potsdam in Germany, where she won the Bundesliga topscorer award. She also won the UEFA Women's Champions League with the team. In 2013 she transferred to the English FA WSL club Chelsea.
She joined Wolfsburg in early 2015 to play in a stronger league for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. In August 2015, Nagasato joined UEFA Women's Champions League 2015 winners 1. FFC Frankfurt.
She was also part of Japan's 2008 Olympic team and 2007 World Cup.
Since 2016, she has worn the number 10 shirt for Japan, after Homare Sawa retired.
Her brother Genki is football player for Ratchaburi, her younger sister Asano is Women's football player for Turbine Potsdam. In the summer of 2012 she married and changed her registered name from Nagasato to Ōgimi before the 2012 Summer Olympics. Upon her divorce in 2016, she re-assumed her maiden name.