Akira Matsunaga is a former Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player and manager.

Matsunaga made several appearances for the Japan national football team

Japan national football team

The Japan national football team represents Japan in association football and is operated by the Japan Football Association, the governing body for association football in Japan...

 during the 1970s.

Club career statistics

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|1971||rowspan="12"|Hitachi

Kashiwa Reysol

is a J. League Division 1 team. Its home town is Kashiwa, Chiba, about an hour northeast of Tokyo.-History:Founded in 1940 as Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in Koganei, Tokyo, the team was a founding member of the Japan Soccer League...

||rowspan="12"|JSL Division 1

Japan Soccer League

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|1972||14||12
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|1973||18||11
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|1974||18||17
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|1975||18||15
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|1976||5||0
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|1977||15||4
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|1978||18||7
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|1979||18||2
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|1980||17||4
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|1981||16||4
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|1982||8||2
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176||82
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International career statistics

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|1973||3||0
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|1974||0||0
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|1975||0||0
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|1976||7||2
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!Total||10||2
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