is a

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former

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player.

Club career

Sato started his professional career in the

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. In 2010, after a trial with the

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club

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, he signed a 4-year contract. The same year he was sent on loan to

FB Gulbene FB Gulbene ''(formerly "FB Gulbene-2005")'' is a Latvian football club based in Gulbene. The club plays its home matches at the Gulbenes Sporta Centrs stadium with capacity of 1,500 people. They were promoted to the Latvian Higher League for the ...

, that time playing in the

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, in order to gain experience before joining

back from loan. He scored 10 goals in 7 games there, attracting interest from other Latvian clubs. In March, 2011 he signed a contract with

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club

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for one season. He won the

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with the team, beating Liepājas Metalurgs in the final. He played 12 matches there, without scoring any goals before being transferred to another

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team

Skonto Riga Skonto FC was a Latvian football club, active from 1991 until 2016. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption (15 in total), and often provided the core of the Lat ...

in August 2011. Sato played 38 league matches, scoring 3 goals for Skonto during 2 seasons in the

with the club. In March 2013 he was transferred to the

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club Dinamo Brest. In March 2014, Sato signed a two-year contract with

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in the

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, and upon making his debut became Bunyodkor's 25th foreign representative. In January 2018, Sato signed

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. On 27 August 2019, he signed with

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side SKA-Khabarovsk.

Club statistics

Club

³Includes

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Awards and honours

Club

;Gulbene 2005 *

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;Ventspils *

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;Skonto FC *

: 2011–12

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