Mio Backhaus

A 194 cm goalkeeper born in Mönchengladbach in 2004, registered in Japanese as Nagata Mio and in German as Mio Backhaus — the name itself tells you the story before you see him play. He has worn both the German and the Japanese shirt at youth level, and that dual formation is the part I find genuinely interesting. Goalkeeping is a trade shaped by the football culture you grow up inside, and he grew up inside two of them. Players with that kind of split background often get treated as slightly foreign in both places, which cannot be easy in a position where the crowd notices only your mistakes. What I do know is that keeping goal for a Bundesliga side like Freiburg is not something you talk your way into. He is still in his early twenties, and goalkeepers famously peak late. If anything, the interesting chapters of this career have not been written yet — I would rather come back and reread this page in ten years than pretend to judge it now.

Name (English)

Mio Backhaus

Name (Japanese)

長田澪

Reading

ながた みお

Born

April 16, 2004 (age 22)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

Origin

Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Height

194 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/miobackhaus/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mio%20Backhaus
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E7%94%B0%E6%BE%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120763210

Tags

• North Rhine-Westphalia
• association football player

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.