1. Yui Hasegawa is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Women's Super League club Manchester City and the Japan national team.
37 Facts About Yui Hasegawa
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Yui Hasegawa joined Manchester City in the summer of 2022 after spending one season with West Ham United.
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Yui Hasegawa was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture on January 29,1997.
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Yui Hasegawa subsequently moved to Toda, Saitama with her family during her childhood.
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Yui Hasegawa attended high school at Hinode High School.
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Yui Hasegawa began playing football in kindergarten at the age of six under the influence of her older brothers, and initially played amongst boys before joining a girls' football club around the age of nine.
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Yui Hasegawa made her Nadeshiko League debut on March 23,2013, as a sixteen-year-old, against FC Kibi IU Charme.
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Yui Hasegawa scored her first league goal in the Nadeshiko League against Iga FC Kunoichi on September 23,2015, and played a key part in leading the team to win the championship that year, ending a five-year drought for the domestic title.
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Yui Hasegawa won the domestic triple crown twice with Beleza, having done so consecutively in the 2018 and 2019 season.
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Yui Hasegawa was first selected to the Nadeshiko League Best XI in the 2017 season.
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Yui Hasegawa would repeated that feat again in 2018,2019, and 2020, until she left Japan to play overseas in 2021.
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On January 29,2021, it was announced that Yui Hasegawa would join Serie A Femminile club AC Milan.
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On September 8,2022, Yui Hasegawa signed a three-year deal with fellow Women's Super League side Manchester City.
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Yui Hasegawa quickly established herself as a key player in the starting line-up as she helped spark a 16-game unbeaten run in all competitions since joining the club.
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Yui Hasegawa played a crucial role in the team's season performance as they finished 2nd in the league, which includes a record breaking 13 successive win in the league.
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On January 23,2023, Yui Hasegawa signed a contract extension that keeps her at Manchester City until 2027.
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Yui Hasegawa has been featured throughout all youth levels of the Japan national team set-up, since she was first called up to the U-17 national team in 2011 at the age of 14.
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Yui Hasegawa began her international career as a 15-year-old at the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Azerbaijan, where she started in two matches against Brazil in the group stage and Ghana in the quarter-final.
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Yui Hasegawa started all six matches in Japan's remarkable run that saw them emerge as the champions.
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On March 1,2017, Yui Hasegawa won her first senior cap for the Japan women's national team when she made her debut as a half-time substitute against Spain at the 2017 Algarve Cup.
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Yui Hasegawa was part of Japan's squad as they defended their Asian Cup title, during the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup in Jordan.
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Yui Hasegawa participated in her first World Cup competition at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France.
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Yui Hasegawa was part of a new generation of Nadeshiko stars, as the Japan senior team was in a period of transition, moving on from many of the players who featured in the squad that reached the previous World Cup final, and had lifted the historic title in 2011.
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In July 2021, Yui Hasegawa took part in the 2020 Summer Olympics held in her home country of Japan.
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On June 13,2023, Yui Hasegawa was included in the 23-player squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.
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Yui Hasegawa played a pivotal role in Japan's performance in the tournament.
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Yui Hasegawa started in all but one game as they finished top of their group and reached the quarterfinals in the world cup.
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On 14 June 2024, Yui Hasegawa was included in the Japan squad for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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Yui Hasegawa was part of the Japan squad that won the 2025 SheBelieves Cup.
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Primarily a defensive midfielder, Yui Hasegawa began her career as an attacking midfielder in Japan.
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Yui Hasegawa is known for her composure on the ball, passing vision, football intelligence and her ball winning ability.
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Yui Hasegawa is described as a player who possesses exceptional ability on the ball, whose electric feet, quick acceleration and low centre of gravity make her an adept dribbler and press resistant.
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Yui Hasegawa possesses a wide variety of passes in her arsenal when combined with her a great passing range and ball carrying capability, made her ranks among the best players in her positions in terms of ball progression.
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Yui Hasegawa possesses a keen sense of tactical awareness and sense of positioning which makes her great penetration threat with or without the ball.
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Yui Hasegawa is an effective player on the defensive end where her intense counter pressing in the final third regularly helps her side to quickly regain possession through intercepting opposition play.
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Since joining Manchester City, Yui Hasegawa has primarily operates as a defensive midfielder where she dictates and control match tempo from deep while providing defensive cover for the defensive line.
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Yui Hasegawa possessed a strong ability to kickstart the attacking sequence after winning back possession.