is a former

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ese

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player and manager. He is the current head coach of the

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and Bati Academy.

Playing career

Gyotoku was born January 28, 1965, in

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. He went to school at Shizuoka Municipal Shimizu Fifth and Tokai Western High School. After high school, he went to

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. Gyotoku began his football career with

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, a team in

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. After playing for Werder Bremen II, he went on to play for

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. He appeared 13 times for the team, 12 in 1990-91 and 1 in 1991-92, but never scored a goal for the team. It did not make the

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Coaching career

Gyotoku coached the

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in 2003 after

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resigned from his position as team manager He led the team to the semi-finals of the

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and the

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, placing them 11th overall in the league. The team went on to make it to the

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group stage. Gyotoku became the coach of the Bhutan national team in 2008. He led the Bhutan team the semifinals of the 2008 South Asian Football Federation Cup tournament, where they lost to India (2 - 1) during stoppage time of extra time. It was the furthest the team had ever gone. In the

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and

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he would lead the team to third and fourth place respectively. However, the team did not attempt to qualify for the

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, being the only

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member in the 2010 qualifications to withdraw. The cited reason for this was a lack of preparation of the field before their game against

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. From December 2014 to July 2015, Gyotoku was head coach of Angthong of the

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. In early 2016, Gyotoku was appointed as head coach of the Nepal national team arriving in the Himalayan country on March 4, 2016. Under Gyotoku's guidance, Nepal performed well and improved its form during the

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, with Nepal achieved two respectable draws against eventual debutants

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and

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at home. But with Gyotoku being found to have entered Nepal with a tourist visa and had no legal working papers permit, he was fired as coach of Nepal in 2018.

Club statistics

Gyotoku played in for each of the schools he attended before he reached the professional level. Other official game * 1990 ** Konica Cup 1 appearance with no goal

Managerial statistics

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyotoku, Koji 1965 births Living people Tokai University alumni Association football people from Shizuoka Prefecture Japanese men's footballers Japan Soccer League players Nagoya Grampus players Japanese football managers Japanese expatriate football managers J1 League managers J2 League managers Shimizu S-Pulse managers Japanese expatriates in Bhutan Expatriate football managers in Bhutan Bhutan national football team managers FC Gifu managers Men's association football defenders Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Bhutan Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Cambodia Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Nepal Expatriate football managers in Nepal Expatriate football managers in Cambodia