# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norio-sasaki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:28:21.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norio-sasaki"
name: "Norio Sasaki"
slug: "norio-sasaki"
description: "Norio Sasaki  is a Japanese football coach and former player. He is best known for leading the Japanese women's national team to their first and only FIFA Women's World Cup win in 2011 over the United States on penalty shootouts. He retired as head coach in March 2016 after eight years. Today, he is the coordinator of Nadeshiko Japan. Sasaki also coached the Japan women's U-20 national team starting in 2007."
tagline: "Japanese association football player and manager"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Norio_Sasaki_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1958-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           55.16
  momentum:             16.35927226025087
  historical:           21.45461733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump