Shinobu Ono

Shinobu Ono is the kind of player who quietly becomes the backbone of an era without ever hogging the spotlight, and honestly that makes her more interesting to me. She was right there in 2011 when Japan's women shocked the world and won the World Cup — one of those genuinely surreal sports moments — and she was contributing as a midfielder who understood the game at a level that stats alone don't capture. She also went and played for Arsenal and Lyon, which tells you everything: this was not a player content to stay comfortable. 139 caps, 40 international goals, and the all-time domestic scoring record in Japan at 182 goals — the numbers are quietly absurd. Born in Zama, Kanagawa, she spent over two decades proving that you don't need to be the biggest name in the room to be the most essential one. The fact that she moved into coaching after retiring in 2020 feels completely right.

Shinobu Ono is a Japanese soccer player born on January 23, 1984, in Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. She stands 156 cm tall. Detailed career and personal information are largely private, though her Wikipedia page and Wikidata entry document her contributions to women's football in Japan.

Name (English)

Shinobu Ono

Name (Japanese)

大野忍

Reading

おおの しのぶ

Born

January 23, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

156cm

Occupation

Soccer Player

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E9%87%8E%E5%BF%8D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q258467

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Soccer Player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.