SUGASAWA Yuika

FIFA Women's World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Senior	2015	Canada
13	Senior	2019	France

Asian Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2018	Indonesia

AFC Women's Asian Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Senior	2018	Jordan

Watching television, online shopping. (soccer-king.jp, Apr 2019)

Athlete, Office Worker

Japanese

Urawa Red Diamonds [Japan] since 2017

Naoki Kusunose [club], JPN; Asako Takakura [national], JPN

Forward (jfa.jp, 13 Jun 2021)

Right

Her older brother Takaya Sugasawa has played professional football, and played for VFC Viengchanh Football Club during the 2020 Lao League 1 season in Laos. (albirex.co.jp, 04 Oct 2010; web.gekisaka.jp, 10 May 2019; goal-agency.com, 04 Jul 2020; footballedge.jp, 23 Jul 2015; Takaya Sugasawa Instagram profile, 16 Nov 2020)

2010 for Japan Against Denmark, in Chile (jfa.jp, 13 Jan 2010)

She missed the 2016 Asian Football Confederation [AFC] Olympic Qualifying Tournament after injuring her left hamstring during training prior to the tournament. (football-zone.net, 20 Oct 2020)

In April 2012 she tore the anterior cruciate ligament [ACL] in her left knee during training. She required six months of recovery, so was ruled out of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (sponichi.co.jp, 15 Apr 2012; football-zone.net, 20 Oct 2012)

WE League [JPN] (weleague.jp, 04 Mar 2021)

She began playing football at age four. (Facebook page, 29 Oct 2011)

She was encouraged by her older brother. (chibanippo.co.jp, 05 Jul 2015)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sports.ms-ad-hd.com, 27 May 2021)

She was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] for the 2020 Nadeshiko League season in Japan. (nadeshikoleague.jp, 17 Jan 2021)

She was named in the Nadeshiko League Best XI team of the year six times between 2014 and 2020. (nadeshikoleague.jp, 17 Jan 2021; footballchannel.jp, 25 Nov 2021)

She received the Top Goalscorer Award for the Nadeshiko League in the 2014, 2015 and 2020 seasons. (web.gekisaka.jp, 23 Feb 2016; nadeshikoleague.jp, 17 Jan 2021)