is a former
Japan
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ese
football
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player. He played for
Japan national team.
Club career
Kobayashi 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 7 July 1930. After graduating from
Keio University
, mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword
, type = Private research coeducational higher education institution
, established = 1858
, founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa
, endowmen ...
, he played
Keio BRB was consisted of his alma mater Keio University players and graduates. He won
1954
Events
January
* January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany.
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...
and
1956 Emperor's Cup
Statistics of Emperor's Cup in the 1956 season.
Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Keio BRB won the championship.
Results 1st Round
* Kwangaku Club 8–0 Tomioka Soccer
* Hamamatsu Soccer 0–4 Keio BRB
*All Muroran 0–7 Toyo Indust ...
at the club.
National team career
In June 1956, Kobayashi was selected
Japan national team for
1956 Summer Olympics qualification. At this qualification, on June 3, he debuted against
South Korea
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. In November, he played at
1956 Summer Olympics
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in
Melbourne
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.
He played 3 games for Japan in 1956.
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National team statistics
References
External links
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1930 births
Possibly living people
Keio University alumni
Association football people from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japanese footballers
Japan international footballers
Olympic footballers of Japan
Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Association football forwards
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