Kota Mizunuma

Kota Mizunuma is exactly the kind of player who makes you feel like you almost missed him — a winger who spent his whole career doing the unglamorous work of winning wide duels and delivering crosses, quietly racking up enough quality to earn a J1 Best XI nod in 2022 when Yokohama F. Marinos lifted the title. But the moment that sticks with me is that Emperor's Cup final in January 2018 — Cerezo Osaka, extra time, and Mizunuma pops up with the goal that wins it. A Yokohama kid writing his name on a national trophy. Then at 34, after a full career touring J1 clubs, he packed his bags for Newcastle Jets in Australia. That's a bold call at that stage, and honestly I respect it. Not everyone has the guts to start over when the comfortable option exists.

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Kota Mizunuma is a Japanese professional soccer player born on February 22, 1990, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. He is active on social media, maintaining a presence on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Kota Mizunuma

Name (Japanese)

水沼宏太

Reading

みずぬま こうた

Born

February 22, 1990 (age 36)

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Height

176cm

Occupation

Soccer Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kota_mizunuma/
• Xhttps://x.com/mizunumakota
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%B2%BC%E5%AE%8F%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q763894

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Soccer Player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.