Shō Itō

Look, I'll be honest — I don't know every chapter of Sho Ito's career by heart, but here's what I do know: standing 184cm tall as a striker in Japanese football is basically being a human landmark on the pitch, and the guy made that count for years. Born in Kasugai, Aichi — not exactly the glamour capital of world football — and grinding his way into the professional game takes a kind of stubbornness that stat sheets never capture. Strikers have the loneliest job in any sport: you can work your lungs out for 89 minutes, miss three sitters, and the whole match gets remembered for the one that didn't go in. The fact that Ito kept showing up, kept running the channels, kept believing the next one was going in — that's the part I respect most. A Leo born in the Year of the Dragon with a frame like that? Yeah, I'd want him bearing down on my back four too.

Shō Itō is a Japanese professional soccer player born on July 24, 1988, in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture. Standing 184 cm tall, he has played as a forward. He is active on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) under the handles shoito16 and shoito0724 respectively.

Name (English)

Shō Itō

Name (Japanese)

伊藤翔

Reading

いとう しょう

Born

July 24, 1988 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon (辰)

Origin

Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

184cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shoito16/
• Xhttps://x.com/shoito0724
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A%E8%97%A4%E7%BF%94

Tags

• From Aichi 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.