is a Japanese professional
footballer
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who plays as a
centre-back and
defensive midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundari ...
for
Bundesliga
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club
Eintracht Frankfurt
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. He played for the
Japan national team, for which he served as
captain.
Club career
Urawa Red Diamonds
After graduating from Fujieda Higashi High School in 2002, he joined
Urawa Reds
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. He became a regular of their first team in the 2003 season. He played mainly as defensive midfielder with
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. In 2004, he was honoured with the
J.League Cup
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New Hero Award and selected as a member of J.League team of the year. He was also the Urawa Fans' Player of the Year that season. The Reds won the championship in the
2006 J1 League for the first time in the club history and the first Asian title of the
2007 AFC Champions League
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Japanese side Urawa Red Diamonds became champions for the first time, beating S ...
.
It was reported in October 2007 that Italian
Serie A
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side
A.C. Siena was keen to sign Hasebe the following January.
VfL Wolfsburg
However, he signed for
Bundesliga
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side Wolfsburg becoming the first Japanese player ever to play for the Wolves. In 2009, he became the second Japanese player to win the Bundesliga title.
On 29 April 2010, it was announced that Hasebe extended his contract with Wolfsburg until 2012.
On 17 September 2011, Hasebe played in goal for the final nine minutes of an away match against
1899 Hoffenheim
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Originally founded in 189 ...
. Wolfsburg lost the match 3–1, with Hasebe conceding Hoffenheim's third goal on 85 minutes. On 3 December 2011, he played his 100th Bundesliga match against
1. FSV Mainz 05.
1. FC Nürnberg
On 2 September 2013, Hasebe signed a three-year contract with
1. FC Nürnberg.
Eintracht Frankfurt
Hasebe moved to Bundesliga team
Eintracht Frankfurt
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for the 2014––15 season, where he was an instant starter, missing just one competitive match in his first season. In the 2015–16 season, he was also a midfielder for Frankfurt, who only managed to stay in the relegation play-off against Hasebe's former club Nuremberg. Under Frankfurt's new coach Niko Kovač, the Japanese player was called up for the first time at centre-back at the end of October 2016 as a central link in a five-man backline and played in this position from then on. He played in the final of the DFB-Pokal that season, which was lost 2–1 to Borussia Dortmund, although Hasebe's season had already ended in March 2017 due to knee surgery.
In the 2017–18 season, he finished eighth in the Bundesliga with Eintracht and also played in the DFB-Pokal final with them again. There, in May 2018, the team won its first title in 30 years after a 3–1 victory over FC Bayern Munich and qualified for the group stage of the Europa League as a result. In the latter competition, he played full time in all 14 of his team's matches the following season and, after victories over Shakhtar Donetsk, Inter Milan and Benfica Lisbon, they advanced to the semi-finals against Chelsea FC, to whom they were defeated on penalties.
Due to his strong performances during the season, he was rated "International Class" by
kicker sports magazine in both the winter of 2018–19 and summer of 2019, and was included in the end-of-season team by the Association of Contract Footballers. With his 309th appearance on 6 June 2020 against
1. FSV Mainz 05, Hasebe became the record Asian player in the Bundesliga.
At the start of the 2020–21 season, the Japanese player was the oldest player in the Bundesliga at the age of 36. Following the end of David Abraham's professional career in January 2021, a permanent new team captain was not appointed, but Hasebe has led Eintracht onto the field as captain for most of the time since. On 18 February 2022, Hasebe signed a contract extension till 2027. His original contract was due to expire this summer. He will spend one more year as a player before taking on a coaching role in the summer of 2023. On 18 May 2022, Hasebe won
UEFA Europa League
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title, coming on as a substitute in the final against
Rangers F.C.
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International career
Hasebe made his debut for the
Japan senior national team under manager
Zico on 11 February 2006, in a friendly match against the
USA
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at
AT&T Park
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in San Francisco.
Although he played three matches under Zico,
he was not selected for the
2006 World Cup
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.
After 2006 World Cup, Hasebe was soon capped for Japan under new manager
Ivica Osim. Although he played three matches under Osim in 2006, he could not play at all in 2007.
Osim suffered a stroke in November 2007 and
Takeshi Okada
is a Japanese former football player and manager. He played for and managed the Japan national team.
Club career
Okada was born in Osaka on August 25, 1956. After graduating from Waseda University, he joined Japan Soccer League (JSL) club Fu ...
replaced him as manager in December. In May 2008, Hasebe played for Japan against
Ivory Coast for the first time in one and a half a year.
From that point onwards, he regularly featured in the squad as a defensive midfielder alongside
Yasuhito Endō
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He made his senior international debut in 2002, representing Japan in three World Cups and three Confederations Cups. In ...
.
Hasebe was the onfield captain in the
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Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi
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Career
Early career
Born in Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, Kawaguchi studi ...
was the third-choice goalkeeper, and was captain in the
2011 AFC Asian Cup. He captained the team for three World Cup campaigns, until he announced his international retirement after Japan lost 3–2 against
Belgium
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in the Round of 16 of
2018 FIFA World Cup. At the 2010 World Cup, Hasebe played all four matches and Japan qualified to the knockout stage.
After the 2010 World Cup, Hasebe also served as a captain under new manager
Alberto Zaccheroni
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He has managed a number of top clubs in Serie A, the high point of his career being his s ...
. In 2011, Japan won the champions in
2011 Asian Cup
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. He played all six matches and scored a goal against
Syria.
From late 2013, Hasebe played as defensive midfielder with
Hotaru Yamaguchi
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Club career Early career
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instead of Endo. In 2014, he played three matches in the
2014 World Cup
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.
However, Japan was eliminated in the group stage.
upHasebe playing for Japan at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Hasebe played the entirety of all four matches in the
2015 Asian Cup
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, where Japan was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
His appearances were limited in 2017 due to injuries. In 2018, he was in the
2018 World Cup
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squad. He played all four matches as a defensive midfielder alongside
Gaku Shibasaki
is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Leganés and the Japanese national team.
Club career Early career
Born in Noheji, Aomori, Japan, Shibasaki began playing in his first year at elementary school. O ...
and Japan qualified to the knockout stage. Following the World Cup, he retired from the Japan national team, having played a total of 114 games and scored two goals.
Career statistics
Club
International
:''Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hasebe goal.''
Honours
Urawa Red Diamonds
*
AFC Champions League:
2007
*
J1 League:
2006
*
J1 League 2nd Stage:
2004
*
Emperor's Cup:
2005,
2006
*
J.League Cup
The is a Japanese football (soccer) competition organized by J.League. It has been sponsored by Yamazaki Biscuits (YBC) of Yamazaki Baking (formerly Yamazaki Nabisco) since its inception in 1992. It is also known as the or (Levain is one of Y ...
:
2003
*
Japanese Super Cup
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:
2006
VfL Wolfsburg
*
Bundesliga
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:
2008–09
Eintracht Frankfurt
*
DFB-Pokal
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:
2017–18
*
UEFA Europa League
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:
2021–22
Japan
*
AFC Asian Cup:
2011
*
Kirin Cup
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:
2008
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,
2009,
2011
Individual
*
J.League Best XI The J.League Best XI is an acknowledgement of the best eleven players in J.League.
J1 League (1993–present)
Multiple appearances
Appearances by club
Appearances by country
* Only in two occasions there was a full-Japanese Best XI (20 ...
:
2004
*
J.League Cup New Hero Award:
2004
*
AFC Asian International Player of the Year: 2018
*
UEFA Europa League
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Squad of the Season:
2018–19
*
VDV Team of the Season:
2018–19
* ''
kicker
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''
Bundesliga
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Team of the Season:
2018–19
See also
*
List of footballers with 100 or more caps
References
External links
*
*
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hasebe, Makoto
1984 births
Living people
People from Fujieda, Shizuoka
Association football people from Shizuoka Prefecture
Japanese footballers
Association football midfielders
Japan international footballers
AFC Asian Cup-winning players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2011 AFC Asian Cup players
2013 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
2015 AFC Asian Cup players
2018 FIFA World Cup players
FIFA Century Club
J1 League players
Bundesliga players
Urawa Red Diamonds players
VfL Wolfsburg players
1. FC Nürnberg players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
UEFA Europa League winning players
Japanese expatriate footballers
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate footballers in Germany