Shohei Yokoyama (横山翔平, born August 9, 1993) is a Japanese

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player who plays as a

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or a winger for Taichung Futuro in Taiwan. Having started his career in

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, Yokoyama moved to

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, joining fourth-tier NK Međimurec DP, spending a year and a half there, becoming the club's top scorer with 22 goals in the 2017/18 season. In 2018 he moved to

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n third-tier team DSC Wonisch Installationen, but returned in December to

, this time to second-tier

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Club statistics

''Updated to 23 February 2016''.Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社
"2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑"
10 February 2016, Japan, (p. 244 out of 289)

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* 1993 births Living people Japanese men's footballers Association football people from Gunma Prefecture J2 League players J3 League players Thespa Gunma players FC Machida Zelvia players NK Varaždin (1931–2015) players Taichung Futuro F.C. players J.League U-22 Selection players Men's association football midfielders Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Austria Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Taiwan Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Taiwan Japanese expatriate men's footballers 21st-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub