Toshihide Saito

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Toshihide Saito (斉藤 俊秀, Saitō Toshihide^?, born 20 April 1973 in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan) is a Japanese football (soccer) defender.

He was educated at and played for Shimizu Higashi High School and Waseda University. After graduating, he joined J. League side Shimizu S-Pulse in 1996. He received J-League Young Player of the Year that season. He's been a long serving Shimizu player but is currently on loan to Division 2 side Shonan Bellmare for the 2007 and 2008 seasons.

He was capped 18 times for the Japanese national team between 1996 and 1999. His first international appearance came on August 25, 1996 in a friendly against Uruguay at Nagai Stadium in Osaka. He was an unused substitute at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

[edit] Clubs

• 1996-2006: Shimizu S-Pulse
• 2007-present: Shonan Bellmare (loan)

[edit] National team

• 1996 Asian Cup
• 1998 FIFA World Cup

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Individual Honors

• J-League Young Player of the Year: 1996
• J-League Best Eleven: 1999

[edit] External links

• Career history at National Football Teams

Preceded by Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi

J-League Young Player of the Year 1996

Succeeded by Atsushi Yanagisawa

v • d • e Japan squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup 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

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