is a former Japanese football player.

Club career

Tsujimoto was born in

Suita is a city located in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of October 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 378,322 and a population density of 9,880 persons per km². The total area is 36.11 km². The city was founded on April 1, ...

on 23 June 1979. After graduating from Kindai University High School, he joined

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in 1998. However the club was disbanded end of 1998 season due to financial strain, he moved to

Kyoto Purple Sanga is a Japanese professional football club based in Kyoto. "Sanga" comes from the Sanskrit word ''sangha'', a term meaning "group" or "club" and often used to denote the Buddhist priesthood, associating the club with Kyoto's many Buddhist templ ...

with contemporaries

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, Kazuki Teshima and so on in 1999. He played for the club until 2005. From 2006, he played for

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(2006), Sagawa Printing (2007–08) and

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(2009). He retired end of 2009 season.

National team career

In August 1995, Tsujimoto was selected Japan U-17 national team for 1995 U-17 World Championship and he played 1 match. In April 1999, he was also selected Japan U-20 national team for 1999 World Youth Championship. At 1999 World Youth Championship, he played as right back of three back defense with Kazuki Teshima and Koji Nakata. He played full-time in all 7 matches and Japan won the 2nd place.

Club statistics

Honors and awards

FIFA World Youth Championship The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members’ men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 wh ...

runner-up:

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* * * 1979 births Living people Association football people from Osaka Prefecture People from Suita Japanese men's footballers Japan men's youth international footballers J1 League players J2 League players Japan Football League players Yokohama Flügels players Kyoto Sanga FC players Tokushima Vortis players SP Kyoto FC players FC Osaka players Men's association football defenders {{Japan-footy-defender-1970s-stub