Sawako Yasumoto
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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. She plays for
Changnyeong Changnyeong County () is a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. In the early Three Kingdoms period, Changnyeong was the seat of Bihwa Gaya, a member of the Gaya confederacy which was later conquered by Silla. The Nakdong River flo ...
in the
WK League The WK League (Hangul: WK리그) is a semi-professional women's football league, run by the Korea Football Association (KFA) and the Korea Women's Football Federation (KWFF), which represents the sport's highest level in South Korea. Icheon D ...
. She played for Japan national team.


Club career

Yasumoto was born in
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on July 6, 1990. She joined
TEPCO Mareeze was a women's football team which played in Division 1 of Japan's Nadeshiko League. It was a founding member of the league in 2000. The club was disbanded after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster; primary sponsor TEPCO is a Japanese elec ...
. However, the club was disbanded for
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in 2011. In May, she moved to
JEF United Chiba , 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 ...
. In 2012, she moved to
Vegalta Sendai is a Japanese professional association football, football club based in Sendai, Miyagi, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. They currently play in J2 League, the Japanese second tier of professional football. History Founded in 1988 as ''Tohoku Elect ...
(later ''Mynavi Vegalta Sendai'').


National team career

On May 8, 2010, when Yasumoto was 20 years old, she debuted for Japan national team against
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. She played 2 games Japan in 2010. She was also a member of Japan U-20 national team for 2010 U-20 World Cup in July.


National team statistics

List of match i
2010
at Japan Football Association


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1990 births Living people Association football people from Chiba Prefecture Japanese women's footballers Japan women's international footballers Nadeshiko League players TEPCO Mareeze players JEF United Chiba Ladies players Mynavi Vegalta Sendai Ladies players Women's association football forwards Japanese expatriate women's footballers Japanese expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Expatriate women's footballers in South Korea 21st-century Japanese sportswomen {{Japan-women-footy-bio-stub