Masahiro Wada

Masahiro Wada (和田 昌裕, Wada Masahiro, born January 21, 1965) is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Managerial career

After the retirement from football, Wada remained as the coaching staff of Vissel Kobe. In 2009, he was appointed as the senior team caretaker after the resignation of Caio Júnior. Wada managed the team for five games in J1 and stepped down from the head coach position after the appointment of Toshiya Miura. He still worked as the assistant coach for the club.

On 12 September 2010, after the dismissal of Miura, Wada was promoted to be the club head coach again. In the later season, Masahiro Wada led Vissel Kobe to finish in the ninth position on J1 League, the highest rank in the club history. However, Wada was sacked by the club in 2012 season after 8 games with 3 wins and 5 losses in J1 since the club had aimed for the top four position for the continental football.

He still worked as the executive staff for Vissel Kobe until November 2013.

Chonburi

In 2014, Masahiro Wada has become the first foreign head coach of Chonburi in Thai Premier League, followed the invitation of Wittaya Laohakul who was the director of Chonburi and his teammate at Matsushita Electric. Wada finished his season in Thailand with the second place of 2014 Thai Premier League, runner-up of 2014 Thai FA Cup and received the TPL Coach of the Year award. However, he decided to turn down the new contract from Chonburi and return to Japan.

Return to Japan

In December 2014, Mashiro Wada has returned to Japan and become the manager of Kyoto Sanga FC in J2 League. He later stepped down from his position on 10 July 2015 after dropping the club to the relegation zone.

Second spell on Thailand

On 22 October 2015, Port F.C. made the official appointment of Masahiro Wada for the last nine games of relegation avoiding in Thai Premier League. Wada made the impressive run with Port but could not save them from relegation. He has maintained his role as the club head coach down in Division 1. Wada was sacked by Port F.C. on 11 July 2016 when the club was in third place and has 5 points away from leading position after 19 games. He was replaced by Jadet Meelarp.^[1]

Club statistics

Managerial statistic

As of 24 September 2016

Nat.	Team	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
	Vissel Kobe[2]	2009	2012	7001630000000000000♠63	7001230000000000000♠23	7001140000000000000♠14	7001260000000000000♠26	5000000000000000000♠0	5000000000000000000♠0	+0	7001365100000000000♠36.51
	Chonburi	2 December 2013	10 November 2014	7001480000000000000♠48	7001270000000000000♠27	7001140000000000000♠14	7000700000000000000♠7	7001800000000000000♠80	7001420000000000000♠42	+38	7001562500000000000♠56.25
	Kyoto Sanga FC[3]	16 December 2014	10 July 2015	7001220000000000000♠22	7000600000000000000♠6	7000400000000000000♠4	7001120000000000000♠12	5000000000000000000♠0	5000000000000000000♠0	+0	7001272700000000000♠27.27
	Port	22 October 2015	11 July 2016	7001320000000000000♠32	7001160000000000000♠16	7001100000000000000♠10	7000600000000000000♠6	7001580000000000000♠58	7001360000000000000♠36	+22	7001500000000000000♠50.00
	Sisaket	1 September 2016	Present	7000300000000000000♠3	7000100000000000000♠1	5000000000000000000♠0	7000200000000000000♠2	7000800000000000000♠8	7000800000000000000♠8	+0	7001333300000000000♠33.33
Career totals				7002168000000000000♠168	7001730000000000000♠73	7001420000000000000♠42	7001530000000000000♠53	7002146000000000000♠146	7001860000000000000♠86	+60	7001434500000000000♠43.45

¹ A win or loss by the penalty shoot-out is counted as the draw in time.

References

External links

• Player statistics at J.League Data Site (Japanese)
• Manager statistics at J.League Data Site (Japanese)
• Vissel Kobe