Mamoru Izawa (井沢 守, Izawa Mamoru) is a midfielder from Japan.
Description[]
He first appeared in Captain Tsubasa story. Izawa has the ability to dribble and be a playmaker of an attacking midfielder. Izawa is part of Japan's Golden Age, and substitute of Japan national team in several youth categories and regular midfielder for Nankatsu in elementary, middle and high school categories. For Japan, he usually wears the jersey #8.
Biography[]
He's been a member of Shutetsu and then Nankatsu in the manga.
An important trait of Izawa, is his specialty at headers, usually winning most heading duels. With his teammates Kisugi and Taki, they do the Shutetsu Trio one-two offensive, being crucial for scoring goals with Tsubasa who dominates the midfield most of the times. Although Izawa is only a substitute of Japan and was originally a midfielder, he has proved himself several times that he was a good defender.
In Road to 2002 arc, he joins the Yokohama F. Marinos. Selected for U-22 Japan, he replaced the injured Jito in the first friendly match against U-22 Denmark, allowing Japan to change its defensive system in the middle of the match. The fact that he is an utility player was useful throughout the Asian preliminaries.
Appearance[]
Curiously, some of his physical traits and football changed positions (from grade school to Japan national team) are very similar to that of Hikaru Matsuyama. They are also both defenders and midfielders
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Techniques[]
- Main article: Mamoru Izawa/Techniques
Gallery[]
- Main article: Mamoru Izawa/Gallery
Trivia[]
- He is known as Paul Diamond in the Latin American dub and some European countries.
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Notes[]
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- ↑ When playing for U-22 Japan