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Tamotsu Suzuki (鈴木保, Suzuki Tamotsu, born 29 April 1947) is a Japanese former football player and manager. He managed Japan women's national team.

Playing career

Suzuki was born in Saitama on 29 April 1947. After graduating from Rikkyo University, he played for Nissan Motors from 1972 to 1974.

Coaching career

From 1975, Suzuki became coach for Nissan Motors. He managed for Nissan Motors (1985) and Nissan FC Ladies (1987–1989).

In 1989, he became manager for Japan women's national team.^[1] He managed three world tournament, 1991, 1995 World Cup and 1996 Summer Olympics. In Asia, Japan won second place four times, AFC Women's Championship (1991, 1995) and Asian Games (1990, 1994). He resigned after 1996 Summer Olympics and Satoshi Miyauchi became a new manager.

In August 1996, he became manager for Nikko Securities Dream Ladies and won L.League champions for three years in a row to 1998. However, the club was disbanded due to financial strain end of 1998 season.

In June 1999, Japan under manager Miyauchi was defeated in group stage at 1999 World Cup and failure to qualify for 2000 Summer Olympics. After the 1999 World Cup, Suzuki became a manager for Japan national team again and managed Japan at 1999 AFC Women's Championship in November.^[1] Japan finished in fourth place and he resigned end of the championship.

References

^ ^a ^b Japan Football Association

Japan squad – 1989 AFC Women's Championship third place
GK Sakata GK M. Suzuki FP Handa FP Hironaka FP Honda FP Ishibashi FP Kaji FP Kioka FP Kuroda FP Matsuda FP Matsunaga FP Nagamine FP Noda FP Takahagi FP Takakura FP Tezuka FP Watanabe FP Yamada Coach: T. Suzuki

Japan squad – 1991 AFC Women's Championship runners-up
GK Sakata GK M. Suzuki FP Handa FP Honda FP Ishibashi FP Kaji FP Kobayashi FP Kuroda FP Matsuda FP Matsunaga FP Mizuma FP Nagamine FP Noda FP Takahagi FP Takakura FP Tezuka FP Uchiyama FP Yamaguchi Coach: T. Suzuki

Japan squad – 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup
1 M. Suzuki 2 Honda 3 Watanabe 4 Kaji 5 Yamaguchi 6 Takahagi 7 Obe 8 Matsuda 9 Noda (c) 10 Takakura 11 Kioka 12 Sakata 13 Kuroda 14 Handa 15 Nagamine 16 Tezuka 17 Mizuma 18 Uchiyama Coach: T. Suzuki

Japan squad – 1993 AFC Women's Championship third place
GK Ozawa GK Sakata FP Handa FP Haneta FP Kadohara FP Kioka FP Mizuma FP Morimoto FP Nagamine FP Noda FP Obe FP Sawa FP Takakura FP Tomei FP Uno FP Yamaguchi FP Yamaki Coach: Suzuki

Japan squad – 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup
1 Ozawa 2 Tomei 3 Yamaki 4 Haneta 5 Uno 6 Nishina 7 Sawa 8 Takakura 9 Kioka 10 Noda (c) 11 Handa 12 Obe 13 Nagamine 14 Kadohara 15 Morimoto 16 Otake 17 Uchiyama 18 Takeoka 19 Onodera 20 Sakata Coach: Suzuki

Japan squad – 1995 AFC Women's Championship runners-up
GK Onodera GK Sakata FP Handa FP Haneta FP Kadohara FP Kioka FP Morimoto FP Nagamine FP Nishina FP Noda FP Obe FP Otake FP Sawa FP Takakura FP Takeoka FP Tomei FP Uchiyama FP Yamaki Coach: Suzuki

Japan women's football squad – 1996 Summer Olympics
1 Ozawa 2 Tomei 3 Yamaki 4 Haneta 5 Obe 6 Nishina 7 Sawa 8 Takakura 9 Kioka 10 Noda 11 Handa 12 Uchiyama 13 Otake 14 Kadohara 15 Izumi 16 Onodera Coach: Suzuki

Japan squad – 1999 AFC Women's Championship fourth place
GK Miyamoto GK Yamago FP Aizawa FP Fujimura FP Hara FP Isaka FP Kasajima FP Kimura FP Mikami FP Mitsui FP Obe FP Otake FP Sakai FP Takakura FP Torigoe FP Uchiyama FP Yamagishi Coach: Suzuki

Japan women's national football team – managers
Ichihara (1981) Orii (1984) R. Suzuki (1986–89) T. Suzuki (1989–96) Miyauchi (1997–99) T. Suzuki (1999) S. Ikeda (2000–02) Ueda (2002–04) Ohashi (2004–07) Sasaki (2008–16) Takakura (2016–21) F. Ikeda (2021–)

Playing career

Coaching career

References

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