Shigeru Sakurai

After graduating from Komazawa University, he joined J2 League club Montedio Yamagata in 2002.

However he could hardly play in the match behind Kensaku Abe and Tatsuya Tsuruta and Ventforet was relegated to J2 end of 2007 season.

Although Vegalta was promoted to J1 end of 2010 season, he could hardly play in the match behind Takuto Hayashi and Kentaro Seki until 2014.

However Tochigi finished at the bottom place in 2015 season and was relegated to J3 League.

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