Yoshikazu Nagai is a former Japan

Japan

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ese football

Football (soccer)

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 player. He holds the record for most appearances in Japan Soccer League

Japan Soccer League

, or JSL, was the top flight soccer league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J. League. JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professional Japanese Baseball League that was founded in 1936...

 First Division. His son Shunta is also a footballer.

Nagai made 58 appearances for the Japan national football team

Japan national football team

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 from 1971 to 1979.

Club statistics

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|1971

Japan Soccer League 1971

- Japan Soccer League :- Promotion/Relegation Series :Nagoya Mutual Bank lost its place in the League for a second time, this time to Towa Real Estate, which would become one of the biggest names in Japanese football as Fujita Engineering and Bellmare Hiratsuka, currently known as Shonan...

||rowspan="17"|Furukawa Electric

JEF United Ichihara Chiba

is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-...

||rowspan="17"|JSL Division 1

Japan Soccer League

, or JSL, was the top flight soccer league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J. League. JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professional Japanese Baseball League that was founded in 1936...

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|1972

Japan Soccer League 1972

The 1972 season in Japanese football introduced a Second Division to the Japan Soccer League. 9 clubs were chosen from the Japanese Regional Leagues from the previous season, but as Nagoya Mutual Bank resigned from the League, a tenth club was chosen from the Kansai League.-JSL First Division:No...

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|1973

Japan Soccer League 1973

-JSL First Division:-JSL 1/2 Promotion/Relegation Series:Eidai promoted, Tanabe relegated.-JSL Second Division:-JSL Promotion/Relegation Series:...

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|1974

Japan Soccer League 1974

- First Division :- Promotion/Relegation Series :No relegations.- Second Division :- JSL Promotion/Relegation Series :Honda promoted, Hitachi Ibaraki relegated.-All-Star Game:-References:...

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|1975

Japan Soccer League 1975

- First Division :Towa Real Estate was renamed Fujita Industries when the latter absorbed its subsidiary.- Promotion/Relegation Series :No relegations.-Second Division:- JSL Promotion/Relegation Series :...

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|1976

Japan Soccer League 1976

- First Division :- Promotion/Relegation Series :No relegations. As Eidai Sangyo dissolved the club and withdrew from the league in March 1977, Fujitsu was promoted anyway.- Second Division :- JSL Promotion/Relegation Series :...

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|1977

Japan Soccer League 1977

Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1977. This was the inaugural season of the Regional Promotion Series, which replaced the Senior Cup as the source of the clubs promoted from the regional Japanese football leagues.-First Division:...

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|1978

Japan Soccer League 1978

-First Division:By winning the Emperor's Cup and Japan Soccer League Cup along with the title, Mitsubishi completed the first Japanese treble ever.-Promotion/Relegation Series:Nissan promoted, Fujitsu relegated.-Second Division:-Promotion/Relegation Series:...

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|1979

Japan Soccer League 1979

-First Division:-Promotion/Relegation Series:Yamaha promoted, NKK relegated.-Second Division:-Promotion/Relegation Series:No relegations. Due to withdrawal of Yanmar Club, Yanmar Diesel's B-squad, Daikyo was promoted.-References:*...

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|1980

Japan Soccer League 1980

Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1980. For the first time ever, automatic promotion and relegation was introduced for the first and last places of the Second Division, which means that the last place in the First Division went down.-First Division:...

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|1981

Japan Soccer League 1981

-First Division:Fujita Industries won their third League title.Nippon Steel, one of eight inaugural member of the First Division in 1965 as Yawata Steel, was defeated by Second Division runner-up Nissan in the playout and relegated, never to play top flight football again...

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|1982

Japan Soccer League 1982

-First Division:Mitsubishi tied Yanmar's four championships with its own run.NKK could not adjust to the top flight for this season and was relegated instantly, thereby becoming the first Japanese team to go straight back down one season after promotion...

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|1983

Japan Soccer League 1983

-First Division:Yomiuri, the football club became one of big names of earlier years of J. League as Verdy Kawasaki, and currently known as Tokyo Verdy, won its first of seven League championships, fully riding in the wave of its parent company's funds and prestige.Mazda, five-time First Division...

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|1984

Japan Soccer League 1984

Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1984. No promotion/relegation series for both division were held due to expansion of both divisions in the following season.-First Division:No relegation took place due to expansion to 12 clubs.-Second Division:...

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|1985/86

Japan Soccer League 1985-86

-First Division:Led by their star player Yasuhiko Okudera, who had returned to the club after successful periods in Europe, Furukawa Electric won a second title...

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|1986/87

Japan Soccer League 1986-87

-First Division:Despite moving to Kashiwa, Chiba and a soccer-specific stadium of their own, Hitachi did not adjust well and were relegated in bottom place, the first drop for the former champions...

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|1987/88

Japan Soccer League 1987-88

-First Division:-East:-West:-Promotion Group:-East:-West:-9th-16th Places Playoff:-References:*...

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National team statistics

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|1971||4||1
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|1972||0||0
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|1973||5||0
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|1974||4||1
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|1975||11||1
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|1976||17||2
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|1977||5||0
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|1978||12||1
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|1979||9||3
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|1980||2||0
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!Total||69||9
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