is a Japanese

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player who plays as a defender for

Belgian First Division A The Belgian Pro League (; ; ), officially the Jupiler Pro League () for sponsor Jupiler, is a professional association football league in Belgium and the highest level of the Belgian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs from the 2023– ...

club Gent.

Club career

Watanabe joined

J1 League The , the J.League or the for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Japan and the highest level of the Japanese football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation ...

club FC Tokyo in 2018. On 28 December 2021, Watanabe signed a 3.5-year contract with

Kortrijk Kortrijk ( , ; or ''Kortrik''; ), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region, Flemish Provinces of Belgium, province of We ...

in Belgium.

Career statistics

Reserves performance

Last Updated: 4 January 2022

National team statistics

Honours

FC Tokyo * J.League Cup:

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* 1997 births Association football people from Saitama Prefecture Living people Japanese men's footballers Japan men's international footballers Men's association football defenders Chuo University alumni FC Tokyo players FC Tokyo U-23 players K.V. Kortrijk players K.A.A. Gent players J1 League players J3 League players Belgian Pro League players Japanese expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Belgium 2023 AFC Asian Cup players 21st-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-footy-defender-1990s-stub