is a Japanese

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. She played for Japan national team and currently plays for

Detroit City FC Detroit City FC (DCFC) is an American professional soccer club based in Detroit, Michigan, that competes in the USL Championship. The club played in the National Premier Soccer League from 2012 to 2019 and the National Independent Soccer Associ ...

Club career

Yamaguchi previously played for

Florida State Seminoles The Florida State Seminoles are the athletic teams representing Florida State University located in Tallahassee, Florida. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivis ...

(

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), where she won the MAC

Hermann Trophy The Hermann Trophy is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the United States's top men's and women's college soccer players. History In 1967, Bob Hermann, the president of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) and the ...

in 2007. She played for Atlanta Beat ( WPS) in the

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and

Umeå IK Umeå IK () is a professional association football club based in the city of Umeå, in northern Sweden, and currently playing Damallsvenskan, the first tier of women's football in Sweden. They were one of the most successful football clubs in ...

, where she won the double, and made it to UEFA Champions Cup Final, and Hammarby in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish'' and also known as OBOS Damallsvenskan for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred to as the women's Allsvenskan. The term Allsvenskan ...

. She became the first player in Florida State Soccer history to have her jersey retired.

National team career

On 28 July 2007, Yamaguchi debuted for Japan national team against

.Japan Football Association
/ref> She played 18 games and scored 8 goals for Japan until 2011.

Club statistics

National team statistics

List of match i

at Japan Football Association

References

External links

* * * * 1986 births Living people Association football people from Tokyo Metropolis Japanese women's footballers Japan women's international footballers Nadeshiko League players Damallsvenskan players Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza players Florida State Seminoles women's soccer players Umeå IK players Atlanta Beat (WPS) players Hammarby Fotboll (women) players Okayama Yunogo Belle players Japanese expatriate footballers Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Asian Games medalists in football Asian Games gold medalists for Japan Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games Women's association football forwards Hermann Trophy women's winners Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games People from Nishitōkyō, Tokyo Women's Professional Soccer players {{Japan-footy-midfielder-1980s-stub