Finish of an Period: Futoshi Ikeda Retires as Coach of Japan’s Girls’s Nationwide Group

We want to inform you that Futoshi Ikeda, coach of Nadeshiko Japan (Japan Girls’s Nationwide Group), will likely be retiring because of the expiration of her contract.

Profile of director Futoshi Ikeda

title and surname

Futoshi Ikeda

date of delivery

October 4, 1970

fatherland

Tokyo

Participant Historical past

1986-1989 Bunan Excessive Faculty
1989-1993 Aoyama Gakuin College
1993-1996 Rossi Urawa

Educating Historical past

1997-1999 Urawa Reds Youth Coach
2000-2001 Urawa Reds Youth Supervisor
2001-2002 Urawa Reds Youth Coach
2002-2008 Coach of the highest workforce Urawa Reds
Urawa Reds Heartful Membership Coach 2009-2011
2012-2016 Coach Avispa Fukuoka
Supervisor of the Japanese U-19 Girls’s Illustration 2017
Supervisor of the Japanese U-20 Girls’s Illustration 2018
Supervision of the 2019 Japan U-19 ladies’s workforce
Supervisor of the Japanese U-20 Girls’s Illustration 2020
2021-2024 Nadeshiko Japan (Japan ladies’s nationwide workforce) Coach
Supervision of the 2021 Japan U-19 ladies’s workforce
Supervisor of the 2022 Japan U-20 Girls’s Group

{qualifications}

2011 Obtained JFA Class S Teaching License

Predominant outcomes/awards

Winner of the 2017 AFC U19 Girls’s Championship in China
Winner of the 2018 FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup, France 2018
FIFA U-17 Girls’s World Cup Uruguay 2018 (Interim Coach) Finest 8
AFC Annual Awards 2018 AFC President’s Particular Award
Winner of the 2019 Thailand Girls’s Championship AFC U19 2019
2022 AFC Girls’s Asian Cup India 2022 third place
Winner of the EAFF E-1 Soccer Championship 2022 Ultimate Event
FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup Costa Rica 2022 Runner-up
FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2023 Australia & New Zealand 2023 High 8
thirty third Olympic Video games 2024 (2024/Paris) High 8

remark

Director Futoshi Ikeda
I want to specific my gratitude to the gamers, employees and companion firms who’ve supported Nadeshiko Japan within the two years and 11 months since I took workplace, and to all of the supporters who’ve supported me with heat and enthusiasm. I imagine that by way of the World Cup and the Olympic Video games, we’ve got been capable of do extra and develop as a workforce. I wished to maneuver ahead as Nadeshiko Japan and see what lies forward with the gamers.
I hope Nadeshiko Japan continues to deliver braveness and inspiration to many individuals and be a spot kids dream about. Thanks very a lot.

President Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
Coach Ikeda was appointed coach of the Japan U-19 ladies’s nationwide workforce in 2017 and led the younger gamers to their first victory on the 2018 FIFA U-20 Girls’s World Cup. Since 2021, he has been the coach of Nadeshiko Japan, and has continued to develop gamers who intention to turn out to be the very best on the planet.
On the Paris Olympics, sadly, they misplaced to the champions of the USA in extra time and completed the match within the prime 8, however below the management of Coach Ikeda, they have been capable of unite as a workforce and repeatedly confirmed us how they may overcome powerful battles. I did it. I imagine that the gamers who gained expertise below Coach Ikeda will additional develop ladies’s soccer in Japan sooner or later.
I hope Coach Ikeda will proceed to present his power to the event of Japanese soccer. Thanks very a lot, Mr. Tai.