is a Japanese professional

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who plays as a

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Kashima Antlers are a football club in Kashima, Ibaraki, currently playing in the J1 League, top tier of Japanese professional football leagues. The name ''Antlers'' is derived from the city name, Kashima, which literally means "deer island". The club has fi ...

Club career

Kashima Antlers

Suzuki joined the

youth system at the age of 7 in 2003. After scoring two goals and leading Kashima Antlers to their first ever

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title in 2018, Suzuki was named MVP of the competition. He was chosen as one of the candidates for 2018 Asian Footballer of the Year.

Sint-Truiden

On 15 July 2019, Suzuki joined

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club Sint-Truiden. Suzuki scored his first goal for his new club on 21 September 2019, opening the scoring in his side's 3–0 victory over Sporting Charleroi. On 30 November 2019, Suzuki headed in the winning goal as Sint-Truiden upset defending league champions Genk, to move up to 10th in the

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table.

Kashima Antlers

On 3 January 2022, his departure from Sint-Truiden was announced. He returned to his former club

. This marked his 6th season in Japan's top flight league (

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), where he played from the start of his career in 2015, until transferring overseas in 2019.

International career

His debut call-up to the Japan national team was on 7 November 2018 for the Kirin Cup, but he was excluded because of suffering an

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in his club's

match.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Club

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* J.League Cup:

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* Japanese Super Cup:

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Individual

Best Player:

References

External links

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Profile at Kashima Antlers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Suzuki, Yuma 1996 births Living people People from Chōshi Association football people from Chiba Prefecture Japanese footballers Association football forwards J1 League players J3 League players Kashima Antlers players Sint-Truidense V.V. players Belgian First Division A players J.League U-22 Selection players Japanese expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Belgium Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Belgium