is a former

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ese

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player.

Club career

Kozo began his career with

Yokohama Flügels The , also known as the AS Flügels, was a Japanese football club that played in the J.League between 1993 and 1998. The club was an original member ("Original Ten") of the J.League in 1993. In 1999, the club merged with local rivals Yokohama Ma ...

and played later for the

Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ...

. In 2002, he left

. He was now scouted by

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

JEF United Ichihara , full name and also known as , is a Japanese professional football club based in Chiba, capital of Chiba Prefecture. They currently play in the J2 League, Japanese second tier of professional football. History Furukawa Electric SC (19 ...

(later ''JEF United Chiba''). He debuted in 2003 and played many matches as center back from 2004. JEF United won the champions in

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and 2006 J.League Cup. However he could hardly play in the match from 2007. After seven years for JEF United, he moved to

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club

Sanfrecce Hiroshima Sanfrecce Hiroshima () is a Japanese professional association football, football club based in Hiroshima. The club competes in the J1 League, top flight of the Japanese football league system. Sanfrecce is one of the most successful clubs in Ja ...

in June 2008. He played many matches as substitute defender and Sanfrecce won the champions in 2008 J2 League. However he resigned end of 2008 season. After half-year blank, On 20 July 2009, the 2. Bundesliga club

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signed the Japanese defender until the end of the year.

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* 1979 births Living people Waseda University alumni Association football people from Kanagawa Prefecture Japanese men's footballers Japanese expatriate men's footballers J1 League players J2 League players 2. Bundesliga players JEF United Chiba players Sanfrecce Hiroshima players Fortuna Düsseldorf players Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Men's association football defenders 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-footy-defender-1970s-stub