is a Japanese former

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

player and manager.

Club career

Jinno was born in Soka on June 1, 1970. He was educated at and played for Shutoku High School. After graduating in 1989, he joined

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side

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. When Japan's first-ever professional league

J1 League The , known as the for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the system. Founded in 1992, it is one of the most successful leagues in Asian club football. Contested by 18 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the ...

started in 1993, Nissan Motors was transformed to

Yokohama Marinos is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club competes in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. Having won the J-League title four times an ...

for whom he continued to play. He moved to

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in 1996 and helped them to gain the promotion to J1 League. In 1999, he was transferred to

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side

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where he scored the most goals in the league for the season. He played the 2000 season for

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. He briefly played for Oita again in the early stage of the 2001 season before he moved to

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where he retired from the game in 2003.

National team career

Jinno was a member of the Japan national team that won the 1992 Asian Cup but he was never capped.

Coaching career

Jinno remained at

after the retirement and has been working in the area of development for the club until 2009. After 2011, he worked for

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(2011),

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(2012–14) and AC Nagano Parceiro (2015–16). In June 2017, he signed with L.League club

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and became a manager.

Club statistics

Team honors

Club

Asian Cup Winners Cup The Asian Cup Winners' Cup was an association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The competition was started in 1991 as a tournament for all the domestic cup winners from countries affiliated to the AFC. The winne ...

– 1992 *

Division 1/

– 1990, 1995 *

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– 1989, 1991, 1992 * JSL Cup – 1989, 1990

National team

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–

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Personal honors

Top Scorer – 1999

References

External links

* 1970 births Living people Association football people from Saitama Prefecture Japanese footballers Japan Soccer League players J1 League players J2 League players Japan Football League (1992–1998) players Yokohama F. Marinos players Vissel Kobe players Oita Trinita players FC Tokyo players Yokohama FC players 1992 AFC Asian Cup players AFC Asian Cup-winning players Japanese football managers Association football forwards {{Japan-footy-bio-stub