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Tomoji Eguchi

Japanese association football player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ1256036 ↗
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Tomoji Eguchi (江口 倫司, Eguchi Tomoji; born April 22, 1977) is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career

Eguchi was born in Hyogo Prefecture on April 22, 1977. After graduating from high school, he joined Japan Football League club Vissel Kobe based in his local in 1996. The club won the 2nd place in 1996 and was promoted to J1 League from 1997. He played many matches as forward until 1998. However, he could hardly play in the match in 1999. In 2000, he moved to Avispa Fukuoka. Although he played many matches, the club was relegated to J2 League from 2002. He retired end of 2003 season. He became a member of the coaching staff of Vissel Kobe in 2004 and in 2022 began his own football academy in conjunction with Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club - Japan's longest running sports club - founded in 1870.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tomoji Eguchi” is japanese association football player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tomoji, Eguchi and Japanese, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1996, 1997, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-04-22. For this dossier, Tomoji, Eguchi and Japanese is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1256036. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1996, 1997 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tomoji Eguchi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.