Isao Homma


Isao Homma is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career

Homma was born in Tainai on 19 April 1981. He began to play youth team football at the age of 8, with Nakajo Junior Soccer Club. In 1997, he entered Narashino High School in Chiba Prefecture and chose to play for the school. His school team won the prefectural tournament in 1998.
Homma began his professional career with Albirex Niigata in 2000. He made his professional debut on 5 May 2000, in a J2 League match against Mito HollyHock. Three days later, he scored his first professional goal in a 2–1 away victory over Shonan Bellmare. Homma finished his rookie campaign with 31 total appearances and three goals. However, he spent the next few years trying to break into the first team, spending most of his time as a substitute.
In the 2009 season, he was one of the most important players of Jun Suzuki's team. As team usually deployed a 4–3–3 formation, he usually played as a central/defensive midfielder. He succeeded in retaining his place in the team, making 42 total appearances in the 2009 season.
At the start of the 2010 season Homma was selected as the new captain of Albirex Niigata.
However his opportunity to play decreased behind Léo Silva and Yuki Kobayashi from 2013 and he could not play at all in the match in 2014.
In August 2014, he moved to J2 club Tochigi SC. He played as regular player as defensive midfielder. However the club finished at bottom place in 2015 and was relegated to J3 League from 2016. In 2016, although he played as regular player and the club won the 2nd place, the club lost at promotion playoffs and could not promoted to J2.
In 2017, he moved to Albirex Niigata. He retired end of 2017 season.

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