Makoto Hasebe
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Hasebe with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Makoto Hasebe | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 January 1984 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fujieda, Shizuoka, Japan | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre-back, defensive midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Japan (assistant coach) | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1995 | Aojima Higashi SSS | |||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | Aojima Junior High School | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Fujieda Higashi High School | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2002–2007 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 149 | (12) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2013 | VfL Wolfsburg | 135 | (5) | |||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | 1. FC Nürnberg | 14 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2014–2024 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 235 | (2) | |||||||||||
| Total | 533 | (19) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2018 | Japan | 114 | (2) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Japan (assistant coach) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Makoto Hasebe (長谷部 誠, Hasebe Makoto; born 18 January 1984) is a Japanese professional football coach and former player who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the assistant coach of Japan national team.
Hasebe started his professional playing career with Urawa Red Diamonds in 2002, joining the club from his hometown Fujieda Higashi high school team. In January 2008, he moved to the German Bundesliga, where he remained for the rest of his career; he first joined VfL Wolfsburg, winning a league title during the 2008–09 season, before moving to 1. FC Nürnberg late into the 2013 summer transfer window. Following Nürnberg's relegation at the end of the 2013–14 season, Hasebe joined Eintracht Frankfurt in July 2014, where he played over 300 matches across ten seasons and won a DFB-Pokal and UEFA Europa League title.
Hasebe made his senior debut with the Japan national team in 2006. He earned 114 international caps and scored twice, making him one of ten most capped players in the history of the team. He additionally served as captain from 2010 to his retirement from international football in 2018. He was part of the Japanese squads at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 editions of the FIFA World Cups, as well as 2011 and 2015 editions of the AFC Asian Cups. He captained the starting line-up that won the 2011 Asian Cup final.