Yūji Nishida
Yuji Nishida (西田 有志, Nishida Yūji, born 30 January 2000) is a Japanese male volleyball player.
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Nationality | Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | 30 January 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Inabe | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 347.5 cm (137 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Block | 335 cm (132 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite spiker | |||||||||||||||||||
Current club | JTEKT Stings | |||||||||||||||||||
Number | 11 (National Team) 14 (JTEKT Stings) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Nishida currently plays for JTEKT Stings, a volleyball club based in Kariya, Aichi, Japan. He made his debut with JTEKT Stings at V.League (Japan) on 6 January 2018 in a match against Osaka Blazers Sakail. His impressive debut at the young age of 17 soon earned him a position in JTEKT's Starting 6 [1] as well as Japan men's national volleyball team.
He is one of the youngest players in the 2018 roster of the Japan men's national volleyball team and FIVB cup Final.[2] He made his first international performance with the Japanese national team in 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. In June 2018, he played a pivotal role in securing Japan's first win in 11 years against Italy where he collected 24 points from 21 spikes and 3 aces.[3] In September 2018, in a match against Argentina in 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Nishida became the youngest player ever to score 30 points in a match.[4] In June 2019, Nishida broke serving records in the VNL history after hitting 7 aces in a single game during a match against Bulgaria.[5]
Awards
Individuals
- 2018 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League - Top 4 Best Scorers at Preliminary Round [6]
- 2018/2019 2018-19 V. League - Rookie of the Year [7]
- 2018/2019 2018-19 V. League - Best Setter [8]
- 2018/2019 2018-19 V. League - 3rd Best Scorer [9]
- 2019 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League - Top 2 Best Scorers at Preliminary Round [10]
- 2019 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League - Top 2 Best Servers at Preliminary Round [11]
- 2019 FIVB World Cup - Best Opposite Spiker
Junior Team
- 2017:
Gold medal in the 2017 Asian Boys' U19 Volleyball Championship in Myanmar
National Team
- 2019:
Bronze medal in the 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship in Iran
Personal life
- Nishida started playing volleyball after watching his sister playing the sport.
- He listed watching movies and shopping as his hobbies.
- In the interview, he said his idol is Yūki Ishikawa, another Japanese Volleyball Player.[12]
References
- "バレー界に現れたスーパーな18歳。西田有志「大学は遠回りというか」". Number Web. Bunshun. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- "Senior Men's National Team". Japan Volleyball Association. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- "Nishida on fire in Japan's thrilling upset over Italy". FIVB. FIVB. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- "Nishida and Conte Make History with 30+ Point Outputs in Same Match". Volley Mob. Volley Mob. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- "Silvano Prando: There's No Way to Win When You Make Seven Serve Errors in the Tiebreak". Volleyball Nations League. FIVB. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- "Statistics - preliminary round". Volleyball Nations League. FIVB. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- {{Cite web|url=https://vleague.jp/|title=一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構|website=一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構|language=ja|access-date=2019-05-28}}
- {{Cite web|url=https://vleague.jp/|title=一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構|website=一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構|language=ja|access-date=2019-05-28}}
- {{Cite web|url=https://vleague.jp/|title=一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構|website=一般社団法人日本バレーボールリーグ機構|language=ja|access-date=2019-05-28}}
- "Statistics - preliminary round". Volleyball Nations League. FIVB. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- "Statistics - preliminary round". Volleyball Nations League. FIVB. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXG9TvTponk
External links
- Yūji Nishida on Instagram
- Yūji Nishida on Twitter
- at Volleyball.World
- at jtekt-stings.jp
- at "World of Volley"
- at Volleyball.World