Hiroshi Kagawa

Hiroshi Kagawa (賀川 浩, Kagawa Hiroshi, born December 29, 1924) is a former Japanese football player and journalist. His brother Taro Kagawa was also footballer.

Hiroshi Kagawa
賀川 浩
Personal information
Full name Hiroshi Kagawa
Date of birth (1924-12-29) December 29, 1924
Place of birth Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
Playing position(s) Forward
Youth career
Kobe University of Commerce
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Osaka SC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Hiroshi Kagawa was born in Kobe in 1924. After graduating from Kobe University of Commerce, he played for Osaka SC. He won the 2nd place at 1952 Emperor's Cup with Taro Kagawa, Taizo Kawamoto, Toshio Iwatani and so on.

Journalist career

Hiroshi Kagawa started a journalist career in 1951. In 1952, he joined Sankei Shimbun. He also served as editor of Sankei Sports from 1974 to 1984. In 1990, he became a freelance after retirement. He is also producing "Japan Soccer Archive" with Japan Football Museum from 2007. In 2010, he was selected Japan Football Hall of Fame. He covered ten World Cups. At 2014 World Cup, he was at the age of 89 and was the oldest media representative on duty. On January 12, 2015, he was presented with the FIFA Presidential Award in 2014 FIFA Ballon d'Or by President Sepp Blatter.[1]

gollark: https://ourworldindata.org/ has *great* comparison things. You should try it.
gollark: A lot of the time they even have properties you can plot on graphs, which is really fun.
gollark: Some of them have the same properties as each other, so you can compare them.
gollark: Things can be bad or good independent of whether worse or better things exist.
gollark: My view: You're both wrong. It's perfectly valid and possible to compare developed countries to developing ones in a lot of ways, but it doesn't particularly matter.

References
  1. FIFA


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.