Kota Sakurai
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.jpg) Sakurai receives L1O Young Player of the Year award in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 26 May 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Yokohama, Japan | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Landskrona BoIS | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Yokohama F. Marinos | |||
| 2015–2017 | Toronto FC | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2019 | Dartmouth Big Green | 47 | (2) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2018 | Toronto FC III | 40 | (3) |
| 2016 | Toronto FC II | 2 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | Ituano FC Yokohama | ||
| 2022 | Toronto FC II | 7 | (0) |
| 2023 | Ogre United | ||
| 2024 | FK TransINVEST | 20 | (0) |
| 2025 | FK Sūduva | 31 | (2) |
| 2026- | Landskrona BoIS | 0 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 29 April 2026 | |||
Kota Sakurai (Japanese: 櫻井 功大; born May 26, 1999) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Swedish Superettan club Landskrona BoIS.
Sakurai played youth soccer in Japan with Yokohama F. Marinos.[1] He joined the Toronto FC Academy in October 2015.[2]
College career
After receiving scholarship offers from 14 American universities,[3] Sakurai enrolled at Dartmouth College in 2017.[4] In his freshman year, he won the Ivy League Title with the team.[5] He scored his first goal on October 13, 2018, against the Penn Quakers.[6] In 2020, the season was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so Sakurai trained with a team in his native Japan four times per week.[7] During his time with the Big Green from 2017 to 2019, he scored two goals and added six assists in 47 appearances.[2]