is a Japanese
football
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player. She plays for
INAC Kobe Leonessa
INAC Kobe is a Japanese football club from Kobe, founded in 2001. INAC stands for International Athletic Club while Leonessa means Lioness in Italian.
In 2006 INAC Leonessa was promoted to the Nadeshiko.League, where it has played since 2020. ...
in the
Nadeshiko League Division 1.
She also plays for
Japan national team.
Club career
Sakaguchi was born in
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
on June 4, 1992. After graduating from
Musashigaoka College
is a private junior college in Yoshimi, Saitama, Japan
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, she joined
L.League
The , commonly known as the , is a semi-professional women's association football league in Japan.
The Nadeshiko League consists of two divisions that correspond to the second and third levels of the Japanese women's football pyramid respective ...
club
Albirex Niigata
is a professional football club based in Niigata, Japan. Formed in 1955 as Niigata Eleven SC, it was renamed Albireo Niigata FC in 1995, and Albirex Niigata in 1997. From 2023, Albirex will be playing on the J1 League, coming back to the f ...
in 2013.
National team career
In April 2018, Sakaguchi was selected
Japan national team for
2018 Women's Asian Cup. Although she did not play in the match, Japan team won the champions for 2 tournament in a row. On June 10, she debuted as substitute midfielder from the second half against
New Zealand
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. She played 10 games and scored 1 goal for Japan.
National team statistics
[List of match i]
2018
at Japan Football Association
International goals
:''Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first.''
References
External links
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Albirex Niigata
1992 births
Living people
Association football people from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japanese women's footballers
Japan women's international footballers
Nadeshiko League players
Albirex Niigata Ladies players
Women's association football midfielders
Footballers at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
Asian Games medalists in football
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
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