Japan 2011 World Cup winner Yuki Nagasato announces retirement

The former striker of the Japanese women's national team Yuki Nagasato, who helped her country in the first and only world championship title in Germany in 2011, announced her retirement on Monday with 37.

Nagasato also played an important role in the silver medal campaign of Nadeshiko at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in London in London in London in London in London.

“I decided to close this chapter of my professional career,” she wrote in an Instagram contribution. “For 30 years, since I had a ball for the first time, football has been my life.”

Nagasato played for clubs such as Turbine Potsdam in Germany, Chelsea in Great Britain and the Chicago Red Stars in the USA before broke on the floor in 2020 in a men's team, Hayabusa Eleven, in the second stage of Kanagawa Prefecture -League in Japan.

She played for the Houston Dash in the US National Women's Soccer League last year.

Yuki Nagasato (R) celebrates with Homare Sawa to Sawa's extension goal against the USA in the Women's World Championship final in Frankfurt in July 2011. (Kyodo)

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