Yūto Nagatomo
Japanese association football player · Japan · Footballers · Born 1986 · age 40
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Something wrong?A full back who turned 146 caps for Japan into a decade-long European run - Inter Milan for seven years, then Turkey, then France - before circling back to the club that started it all.
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Nagatomo playing for Cesena in 2010
Nagatomo with Inter in 2011
Nagatomo during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Round of 16 match between Belgium and Japan on 2 July 2018.
Nagatomo in action against Iran at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup
Nagatomo playing in the famous 2-1 victory against Germany in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.On YouTube
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Nagatomo came through Meiji University and broke into FC Tokyo's first team in 2007, locking down a spot so quickly that the national team came calling a year later. He left for Italy in 2010, first Cesena, then Inter Milan, where he stayed seven seasons and racked up over 200 appearances, winning a Coppa Italia in 2011. Stints at Galatasaray and Marseille followed - he collected back-to-back Turkish titles in 2018 and 2019 - before he returned to FC Tokyo in 2021. For Japan he became a fixture across five World Cups, three Asian Cups (winning in 2011, runner-up in 2019), and the 2008 Olympics, eventually becoming the country's second-most capped player. The trophies scattered across three countries, but the through-line held: he kept showing up, kept starting, kept lasting.
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