Hiroshi Kobayashi (soccer manager)

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Hiroshi Kobayashi
Personal information
Full name Hiroshi Kobayashi
Date of birth March 17, 1959 (1959-03-17) (age 49)
Place of birth    Japan
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position Defender
Youth clubs
1974-1976
1977-1980
Hitachi First Senior High School
Chuo University
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1981-1989 Furukawa Electric    
Teams managed
1990-1998
2000
2001
ALO's Hokuriku
Kawasaki Frontale
Mito Hollyhock

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Hiroshi Kobayashi (born March 17, 1959 in Ibaraki, Japan) is a former Japanese soccer player, coach, and manager.

He first played soccer in the JSL for the Furukawa Electric soccer club. (Currently, JEF United Ichihara Chiba.) He began his soccer coaching career in 1990 as coach of ALO's Hokuriku, which he coached through 1998 leading the team to promotion in the league. He then coached for the second half of 2001 for Division 1 club Kawasaki Frontale and the first 20 games of the 2002 season for Mito Hollyhock before becoming Mito's general manager. He was the president of Mito Hollyhock from 2002 to 2007.

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