Yasuo Suzuki (鈴木 保男, Suzuki Yasuo; born April 30, 1913) is recorded in contemporary sources as a Japanese football player who represented the Japan national team. Many aspects of his life and playing career—such as his primary position, club affiliations and the date of his death—are not well documented in widely available publications. His record survives mainly through team lists and match reports from the pre‑World War II era.
Overview and historical context
Football in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s was organized largely around school, university and company teams; national selections were typically drawn from these amateur competitions. National and regional tournaments of the period, including the Emperor's Cup and regional international events, provided the main occasions when players like Suzuki could gain selection for the national side. The surviving documentary record from this era is often fragmentary, and many early players are known only from occasional mentions in newspapers or match programmes.
International career
Existing summaries list Yasuo Suzuki as having played for the Japan national team. Beyond the basic attribution to the national side, public records rarely include match-by-match statistics for individual players of his generation. Researchers reconstruct appearances from contemporary match reports, official match lists and archival rosters; these sources are the most reliable way to confirm caps and match details for players of Suzuki's era.
Domestic involvement
Specific club or university affiliations for Suzuki are not consistently recorded in the sources commonly consulted by sports historians. Many national team members of the period were drawn from university teams or company squads; tracking a particular player's domestic career therefore typically requires consulting institutional archives, alumni records and period newspapers.
Research sources and further reading
- Official association archives and compiled match lists: association records.
- Digitized newspapers and period match reports for contemporary game accounts: historic match reports.
- Databases and registries that collect player appearances and caps for the Japan national team: player registries.
Yasuo Suzuki's presence in national-team records places him among the early generation of Japanese international players. For fuller biographical detail, researchers should consult the sources above as well as university and company archives, national library collections and specialist works on early Japanese football history. Caution is advised when using secondary lists: verify entries against contemporary primary sources where possible.