Toyoji Takahashi
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| Full name | Toyoji Takahashi | ||
| Date of birth | 1913 | ||
| Place of birth | Tokyo, Japan | ||
| Date of death | March 5, 1940 (aged 26–27) | ||
| Place of death | Tateyama, Chiba, Japan | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Team | |||
| Seijo High School | |||
| Tokyo Imperial University | |||
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Toyoji Takahashi (高橋 豊二 Takahashi Toyoji, 1913 – March 5, 1940) was a Japanese football player. His grandfather Takahashi Korekiyo was a politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Japan from November 1921 to June 1922.
National team career[edit]
Takahashi was born in Tokyo in 1913. In 1936, when he was a Tokyo Imperial University student, he was called up for Japan national team for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but he did not compete.[1][2] Japan completed a come-from-behind victory first game against Sweden. The first victory in Olympics for the Japan and the historic victory over one of the powerhouses became later known as "Miracle of Berlin" (ベルリンの奇跡) in Japan. In 2016, this team was selected Japan Football Hall of Fame.
Death[edit]
After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University, Takahashi joined Imperial Japanese Navy. However, on March 5, 1940, he died of accident during training in Tateyama at the age of 26.[citation needed] He is the first dead in Japan national team player at 1936 Summer Olympics.
References[edit]
- ↑ Berlin Olympics Results Japan Football associationScript error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
- ↑ Berlin Olympics Results Japan Football associationScript error: The function "in_lang" does not exist.
External links[edit]
- Japan Football Hall of Fame (Japan team at 1936 Olympics) at Japan Football Association
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