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Full name | Mami Yamaguchi [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 13 August 1986 | |||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Nishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||
College career | ||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
2005–2007 | Florida State Seminoles | |||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
2002–2004 | Nippon TV Beleza | 25 | (14) | |||||||||||||||||
2008–2009 | Umeå | 44 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||
2010 | Atlanta Beat | 22 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
2010 | Nippon TV Beleza | 6 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
2011 | Hammarby | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Okayama Yunogo Belle | 11 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
2014 | Nippon TV Beleza | 12 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
2019 | AFC Ann Arbor | 2 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
2021 | Detroit City FC | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
Total | 140 | (29) | ||||||||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
2007–2011 | Japan | 18 | (8) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Mami Yamaguchi (山口 麻美, Yamaguchi Mami, born 13 August 1986) is a Japanese football coach and former player. She is currently an assistant coach with the NWSL's Washington Spirit. [2] She played for the Japan national team and last played for Detroit City FC. [3]
Yamaguchi previously played for the Florida State Seminoles at the collegiate level, where she won the MAC Hermann Trophy [4] in 2007. She became the first player in Florida State Soccer history to have her jersey retired. [5] She played for Atlanta Beat ( WPS) in the United States and Umeå IK, where she won the double, and made it to UEFA Champions Cup Final, and Hammarby in Sweden's Damallsvenskan. [6]
She joined United Women's Soccer amateur club AFC Ann Arbor in 2019, [7] scoring the team's first-ever goal. [8]
On 28 July 2007, Yamaguchi debuted for Japan national team against the United States. [9] She played 18 games and scored 8 goals for Japan until 2011.
Yamaguchi began coaching as a volunteer at Florida State during the 2015-16 season. In 2019, she took an assistant coach position with Livonia City F.C., a club now in the second division of United Women's Soccer. [10] In 2021, she became a player-coach at Detroit City FC. [3]
In April 2023, National Women's Soccer League club Washington Spirit hired Yamaguchi as an assistant coach, [11] reuniting her with former Florida State head coach Mark Krikorian, who had become the Spirit's general manager.
Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Nippon TV Beleza | 2003 | 18 | 9 | - | - | 18 | 9 | ||||
2004 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 7 | 5 | |||||
Total | 25 | 14 | - | 25 | 14 | ||||||
Umeå IK | 2008 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 32 | 4 | ||
2009 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 4 | |||
Total | - | 59 | 8 | ||||||||
Atlanta Beat | 2010 | 22 | 1 | - | - | - | 22 | 1 | |||
Total | 22 | 1 | - | - | - | 22 | 1 | ||||
Nippon TV Beleza | 2010 | 6 | 3 | - | 6 | 3 | |||||
Total | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 8 | 3 | |||
Hammarby | 2011 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 12 | 0 | |||
Total | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 5 | 0 | ||||
Okayama Yunogo Belle | 2012 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | - | 10 | 4 | |
Total | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | - | 10 | 4 | ||
Career total | 129 | 30 |
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