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 who plays for
FC Tokyo
Football Club Tokyo, commonly known as , is a Japanese professional football club based in Chōfu, Tokyo. The club plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. The team is one of only four in the J.League to be si ...
.
Playing career
Watanabe was born in
Saitama Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...
on October 2, 1996. He joined
J2 League
The or simply J2 is the second division of the and the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The top tier is represented by the J1 League. It (along with the rest of the J.League) is currently sponsored by Meiji Yas ...
club
Albirex Niigata in 2018.
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1996 births
Living people
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
Japanese footballers
Japanese expatriate footballers
Regionalliga players
J2 League players
J1 League players
FC Ingolstadt 04 players
FC Ingolstadt 04 II players
Albirex Niigata players
Montedio Yamagata players
FC Tokyo players
Association football midfielders
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate footballers in Germany
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