is a
Japan
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ese professional
footballer
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who plays as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Club career
Rangers
On 6 January 2023,
Rangers
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* Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and ...
announced the signing of Kanda.
Described as a "Japanese star" by the ''
South China Morning Post
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'', Kanda reportedly declined an offer to play for
Indonesia
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in May 2023.
Yumemi scored 10 goals in 18 appearances for Rangers in the 2022–23 season and continued his form in 2023–24 season as he scored 3 goals in first 3 matches including a
AFC Champions League qualifying match.
Career statistics
Club
''Updated to 23 February 2018''.
[Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社]
"2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑"
10 February 2016, Japan, (p. 197 out of 289)
Honours
Club
;Rangers
*
Hong Kong Sapling Cup:
2023–24
References
External links
Profile at Ehime FCProfile at Consadole Sapporo
*
SC Sagamihara Transfer
1994 births
Living people
Association football people from Sapporo
Japanese men's footballers
Japanese expatriate men's footballers
Japan men's youth international footballers
J2 League players
J3 League players
Hong Kong Premier League players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
SC Sagamihara players
Ehime FC players
Tokyo 23 FC players
YSCC Yokohama players
Hong Kong Rangers FC players
Men's association football midfielders
Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong
Japanese expatriates in Hong Kong
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong
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