Yukari Kinga

Yukari Kinga is exactly the kind of player who holds a team together without ever demanding the spotlight, and I genuinely respect that. A Kanagawa kid who came up through Nippon Sport Science University and carved out a long career as a midfielder in Japan's women's top flight — she was part of the Nadeshiko Japan squad that shocked the world at the 2011 Women's World Cup, one of the great underdog tournament runs in soccer history. That alone earns her a permanent place in the story of the sport in Japan. She's a Taurus through and through: no flash, just relentless reliability, the kind of presence that makes a coach sleep easy at night. In an era when women's soccer was still fighting for the attention it deserved, she kept showing up and doing the work. That's not a small thing.

Yukari Kinga is a Japanese football player born on May 2, 1984, in Kanagawa Prefecture. She studied at Nippon Sport Science University, which has a long tradition of producing elite athletes. She is recognized as a footballer and has an active Instagram presence under the handle kingayukari2.

Name (English)

Yukari Kinga

Name (Japanese)

近賀ゆかり

Reading

きんが ゆかり

Born

May 2, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Rat

Origin

Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Football player

University

Nippon Sport Science University

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kingayukari2/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%91%E8%B3%80%E3%82%86%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8A

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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