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Peruvian Peruvians (''/peruanas'') are the citizens of Peru. What is now Peru has been inhabited for several millennia by cultures such as the Caral before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Peruvian population decreased from an estimated 5–9 ...

-born Japanese

futsal Futsal is a variant of association football played between two teams of five players each on a court smaller than a football pitch. Its rules are based on the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game of association football, and i ...

player. He plays for

O Parrulo FS O Parrulo Fútbol Sala is a futsal club based in Ferrol, Spain, Ferrol, Spain. Its pavilion is Pabellón Polideportivo de A Malata, Pavillón A Malata with a capacity of 6,000 seats. Their main sponsor is Estrella Galicia. The team played 5 season ...

and Japanese national futsal team.

Career

Morioka was born in

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. In his childhood, he moved to Japan with his family. He graduated from Narita City Tomisato Elementary School and Funabashi City Katsushika Junior High School. He participated in the

2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup The 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup was the seventh FIFA Futsal World Cup, the quadrennial international futsal championship contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It took place from 1 to 18 November 2012 in Thailand ...

, where he scored four goals, the most of anyone on the Japanese team. In 2014, Morioka participated in the

2014 AFC Futsal Championship The 2014 AFC Futsal Championship was held in Vietnam from 30 April to 10 May 2014. 16 countries took part in the 13th edition of the tournament. Japan won the championship and successfully defended their title from the 2012 AFC Futsal Championship. ...

. Japan beat Iran in the final. In 2018, he participated in the

2018 AFC Futsal Championship The 2018 AFC Futsal Championship was the 15th edition of the AFC Futsal Championship, the biennial international futsal championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the men's national teams of Asia. The AFC appointed Taipei ...

. Japan was defeated by Iran in the final.

Titles

Club

* F. League: 8 :

Nagoya Oceans are a Japanese professional futsal club, currently playing in the F. League Division 1. The team is located in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Their home ground is Takeda Teva Ocean Arena. Season-by-season Sponsor Technical sponsor ...

: 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009–10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012–13, 2013-14, 2014-15 * F.League Ocean Cup: 5 :

: 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011–12, 2012-13, 2013-14 *

All Japan Futsal Championship JFA Japan Futsal Championship (in Japanese: "JFA 全日本フットサル選手権大会") is a futsal tournament held in Japan. The organizer is the Japan Football Association The Japan Football Association (JFA, ) is the Sport governing body, g ...

: 4 :

: 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015 *

AFC Futsal Club Championship The AFC Futsal Club Championship is the current highest Asian futsal club competition, hosted by the Asian Football Confederation. It is futsal equivalent to AFC Champions League. For the inaugural edition, AFC Futsal Committee decided to make ...

: 2 :

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Japan National Team

AFC Futsal Championship The AFC Futsal Asian Cup, previously the AFC Futsal Championship, is the premier international futsal competition for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) national teams. It was first held in 1999 and was played annually until 2008; since then i ...

: 1 :

Individual

* F. League MVP: 4 : 2007-08, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2014-15 * F. League Best 5: 6 : 2007-08, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2017-18 * F. League Top Scorer: 4 : 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 *

MVP: 1 : 2014 *

Top Scorer: 2 : 2013, 2014

External links

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Kaoru Morioka official facebook page
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1979 births Living people Peruvian people of Japanese descent Peruvian emigrants to Japan Japanese men's futsal players Nagoya Oceans players {{Japan-sport-bio-stub