Kazu Naoki


Kazu Naoki was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan [national football team|Japan national team].

National team career

Naoki was born on March 23, 1918. On June 16, 1940, when he was a Tokyo Imperial University student, he debuted for Japan national team against Philippines and Japan won the match. This match was the first match since Football at the [1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Summer Olympics] and the only match in the 1940s in Japan's International A Match due to World War II. Naoki died in an accident immediately after World War II.