Shinji Ono

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Shinji Ono
Personal information
Full name Shinji Ono
Date of birth September 27, 1979 (age 27)
Place of birth    Numazu, Japan
Height 178 cm
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club Urawa Reds
Youth clubs
 ?-1992
1992-1995
1995-1998		 Imazawa Boys Soccer Club
Imazawa Jr. H.S.
Shimizu Commercial H.S.
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1998-2001
2001-2006
2006-		 Urawa Reds (Japan)
Feyenoord (Holland)
Urawa Reds (Japan)		 86 (20)
83 (19)
28 (5)   
National team2
1998-2006 Japan 55 (6)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of January 11, 2007.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of January 11, 2007.
* Appearances (Goals)

Shinji Ono (小野伸二 Ono Shinji, born on September 27, 1979 in Numazu, Shizuoka) is a Japanese football player, who plays as a midfielder for the Japanese national team and Urawa Red Diamonds of J. League

Known as Tensai, Japanese for "Genius", from his youth days, Ono is one of the biggest stars in Asian football, known for his vision and versatility, as well as his big smile.[1] Although his primary position is attacking midfielder, he can play anywhere in the midfield, including defensive midfield and either wing.

Ono grew up in the Japanese soccer hotbed of Shizuoka Prefecture and began his professional career with Urawa Red Diamonds of the J. League in 1998. The same year, he became the youngest member of Japan's 1998 FIFA World Cup team at age 18 and made one appearance as a substitute.

He caught the attention of foreign clubs with his performance at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship in Nigeria, where he captained the Japanese Under-20 side that reached the final. But later that year, he suffered a severe knee injury in a qualification match for the 2000 Olympics with Japan's Under-23 side, forcing him to miss the rest of the season and Olympic qualifying. He did not regain full fitness in time for the Olympics in Sydney and Urawa was relegated to Division 2 in his absence. But rather than move to another J-League club or abroad, Ono stayed with Urawa for the 2000 season and helped the club return to top flight.

After a strong performance at the 2001 Confederations Cup, Ono moved to Feyenoord of the Dutch Eredivisie in 2001. In his first season in Rotterdam, he helped Feyenoord win the 2002 UEFA Cup and emerged as a fan favorite[citation needed]. However, a string of injuries kept him sidelined for long stretches. After he missed the majority of 2004/2005 season, his fourth at De Kuip, the club was ready to sell him.

On January 13, 2006, after an unsuccessful attempt to stay in European football, Ono returned to J. League, agreeing a 3-year deal with his old club, Urawa Red Diamonds. [2] [3]

When fit, Ono is an ever-present member of the Japanese national team. He appeared in the 1998 FIFA World Cup at age 18 and was a key member of the Japanese squad in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He has represented Japan at every age level starting with the U-16 team, and was one of three overage selections at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Although injuries limited Ono to just one appearance in the final round of the qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup and he missed the Confederations Cup in 2003 and 2005, he played in his third World Cup finals in 2006.

Contents

Last update: 12 March 2007

Season Team Country Division Apps Goals
1997 Urawa Reds Japan 1 9 1
1998 Urawa Reds Japan 1 27 9
1999 Urawa Reds Japan 1 10 1
2000 Urawa Reds Japan 2 24 7
2001 Urawa Reds Japan 1 14 2
01/02 Feyenoord Netherlands 1 30 3
02/03 Feyenoord Netherlands 1 29 7
03/04 Feyenoord Netherlands 1 24 2
04/05 Feyenoord Netherlands 1 25 7
05/06 Feyenoord Netherlands 1 4 0
2006 Urawa Reds Japan 1 28 5
2007 Urawa Reds Japan 1


Preceded by
Flag of Japan Atsushi Yanagisawa		 J-League Young Player of the Year
1998		 Succeeded by
Flag of Japan Yuji Nakazawa
Preceded by
Flag of Iran Mehdi Mahdavikia		 Asian Young Footballer of the Year
1998		 Succeeded by
Flag of Qatar Waleed Hamzah
Preceded by
Flag of People's Republic of China Fan Zhiyi		 Asian Footballer of the Year
2002		 Succeeded by
Flag of Iran Mehdi Mahdavikia


Urawa Reds - Current Squad

1 Yamagishi | 2 Tsuboi | 3 Hosogai | 4 Tulio | 5 Nenê | 6 Yamada | 7 Sakai | 8 Ono | 9 Nagai | 10 Ponte | 11 Tanaka | 12 Tsutsumi | 13 Suzuki | 14 Hirakawa | 15 Escudero | 16 Soma | 17 Hasebe | 18 Koike | 19 Uchidate | 20 Horinouchi | 21 Washington | 22 Abe | 23 Tsuzuki | 24 Sakamoto | 25 Akahoshi | 26 Nakamura | 27 Nishizawa | 28 Kato | 29 Otani | 30 Okano | Manager: Osieck
Flag of Japan Japan squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup Flag of Japan

1 Kojima | 2 Narahashi | 3 Soma | 4 Ihara | 5 Omura | 6 Yamaguchi | 7 Ito | 8 Nakata | 9 Nakayama | 10 Nanami | 11 Ono | 12 Lopes | 13 Hattori | 14 Okano | 15 Morishima | 16 Saito | 17 Akita | 18 Jo | 19 Nakanishi | 20 Kawaguchi | 21 Narazaki | 22 Hirano | Coach: Okada
Flag of Japan Japan squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Flag of Japan

1 Kawaguchi | 2 Akita | 3 Matsuda | 4 Morioka | 5 Inamoto | 6 Hattori | 7 H. Nakata | 8 Morishima | 9 Nishizawa | 10 Nakayama | 11 Suzuki | 12 Narazaki | 13 Yanagisawa | 14 Santos | 15 Fukunishi | 16 K. Nakata | 17 Miyamoto | 18 Ono | 19 Ogasawara | 20 Myojin | 21 Toda | 22 Ichikawa | 23 Sogahata | Coach: Troussier
Flag of Japan Japan squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Flag of Japan

1 Narazaki | 2 Moniwa | 3 Komano | 4 Endo | 5 Miyamoto | 6 K. Nakata | 7 H. Nakata | 8 Ogasawara | 9 Takahara | 10 Nakamura | 11 Maki | 12 Doi | 13 Yanagisawa | 14 Santos | 15 Fukunishi | 16 Oguro | 17 Inamoto | 18 Ono | 19 Tsuboi | 20 Tamada | 21 Kaji | 22 Nakazawa | 23 Kawaguchi | Coach: Zico
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