Mao Hosoya

I'll be honest, Mao Hosoya is exactly the kind of player I love rooting for: a kid from Ibaraki, born in 2001, still in that wide-open mid-twenties stretch where the whole career is runway and nobody's written the ending yet. There's something about footballers from the quieter corners of Japan that reads as grind over glamour to me, all those unglamorous training days, getting knocked down and hauling yourself back up, just to earn ninety minutes. I don't know his stat line by heart and I won't pretend to, but the shape of a young striker chasing his ceiling is a story I never get tired of. Honestly, the unfinished potential is the most exciting part. Go get it, kid.

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Mao Hosoya is a Japanese soccer player born on September 7, 2001, in Ushiku, Ibaraki Prefecture. He is active on social media platforms including Instagram and X. A product of the Kashiwa Reysol academy, he plays as a centre-forward for Kashiwa Reysol and has been capped by Japan.

Name (English)

Mao Hosoya

Name (Japanese)

細谷真大

Reading

ほそや まお

Born

September 7, 2001 (age 25)

Origin

Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Height

177 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mao_hosoya35/
• Xhttps://x.com/GUEmKGyPas5VnoZ
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%B0%E8%B0%B7%E7%9C%9F%E5%A4%A7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63989023

Tags

• From Ibaraki Prefecture
• Soccer player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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