Yuji Nishida
Yuji Nishida (西田 有志, Nishida Yūji, born 30 January 2000) is a Japanese male volleyball player. Currently, he plays for Volley Callipo in Italian Volleyball League.[3][4][5]
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Full name | Yuji Nishida | |||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Yuji | |||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mie, Japan | 30 January 2000|||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Inabe | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 87 kg (192 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 350 cm (138 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
Block | 335 cm (132 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite Spiker | |||||||||||||||||||
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Number | 11 (national team) 2 (club) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Nishida made his debut with JTEKT Stings at V.League on 6 January 2018 in a match against Osaka Blazers Sakai. His impressive debut at the young age of 17 soon earned him a position in JTEKT's Starting 6,[6] as well as Japan men's national volleyball team. Nishida also led the team finishing 7th place after 29 years, in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
He is one of the youngest players in the 2018 roster of the Japan men's national volleyball team and FIVB cup Final.[7] He made his first international performance with the Japanese national team in 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League. In June 2018, he played a pivotal role in securing Japan's first win in 11 years against Italy where he collected 24 points from 21 spikes and 3 aces.[8] In September 2018, in a match against Argentina in 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Nishida became the youngest player ever to score 30 points in a match.[9] In June 2019, Nishida broke serving records in the VNL history after hitting 7 aces in a single game during a match against Canada.[10]
Nishida took MVP awards of the matches in Italian Volleyball League for 3 times despite the injury and 2-month recovery. Furthermore, he helped his team, Volley Callipo, in many matches that made him became the highest scorer of the team. The highest score that he ever done was 29 points and scored the most aces in one match of the league's first round, 2021/22 season, with 8 aces.[11][12]
Career
Elementary school years
Nishida first started volleyball due to his elder sister and brother and joined the same team as his brother 'Daian Beetles'. He poured all his energy into practicing with the team that by the second year he was already playing games and becoming regular in the third year.
While being fascinated by the Olympics, his attention was caught by Kunihiro Shimizu, a left-handed opposite like him which instigated and inspired him to want to be like Shimizu and compete in the Olympics.
In his fourth year of elementary school, Nishida achieved a huge goal of winning the 29th All Japan Volleyball Tournament in Mie Prefecture.
In his sixth year of elementary school, he became the captain and led the team to win the President's Cup of Mie Prefecture Club Volleyball Federation.
Middle School Years
After graduation, he went to a local junior high (middle school) which was not a powerhouse.
Nishida had the opportunity to participate in Kaisei High School's volleyball club practice in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture as he was a regular player since freshman year. His play there caught the attention of Masanobu Onishi, the volleyball team manager at that time, and Katsunari Fujita, the head of the team. In June of the same year, he joined the junior high school club team 'NFO Ocean Star', recommended by Fujita.
In March 2013, Nishida was selected for the U-14 team in the Hokusei district of Mie Prefecture. In August of the same year, he was selected for the Mie Prefecture selection team and competed with teams from all over Japan in the Junior Olympic cup held in December.
High school years
He chose to decline the powerhouses in his prefectures and chose to go to Kaisei High School which had never been to nationals. The team went on to perform well in competitions throughout the prefecture.[13] However, the Mie Prefecture High School Newcomer's Volleyball Championship in February 2016, the Spring Championship in April, and the Mie Prefecture High School General Athletic Meet (Interhigh Preliminary Qualification) in May, all finished as the second runner-up. To get better, he decided to join the newly established U-19 of the local club team Veertian Mie, where they would have regular practices with Tenri University. In June, they won the U-19 boys division of the Mie Prefecture Young Volleyball Championship, and in September, they won the national championship. Nishida received the Japan Young Club Volleyball Federation Award as an outstanding player in that tournament.
Just as he had done in junior high school, Nishida practiced with three different teams and went on to compete in the Mie Prefectural High School Championship (Haruko Preliminaries) in November. Kaisei High School won smoothly and faced their rival Matsusaka Kogyo, in the final where they lost.[14]
Then came the Inter-High held in Yamagata Prefecture in 2017 with their match against Hokkaido’ Tokai University. Kaisei went on to win their next match against Soma High School (Fukushima) by a set count of 2-0 and advanced to the final tournament with their first Inter-High win. Their first game of the tournament was against Higashi Fukuoka High School, a powerhouse that is a regular in the national tournament. The unknown Kaisei beat the defending champion Higashi Fukuoka by a set count of 2–0.
In the next match, Osaka's Seifu High School, the old powerhouse that defeated Higashi Fukuoka, did not let their guard down against Kaisei and won once again. In the next round, they lost to Narashino of Chiba (set count 0–2) but they made it to the top 16 in their first Inter-High Tournament.[15] Kaisei advanced to the finals of the five-set match against Matsusaka Technical High School, the absolute champion of the tournament and lost. This Haruko qualifiers game was his last game in high school.
2017/18 season
In March 2017, Nishida had a name in Japan men's national under-19 volleyball team for competed in 2017 Asian Boys' U19 Volleyball Championship, but he was mainly used as a substitute in the tournament. At the end, Japanese team won the gold medal for the first time in its history.[16] In October 2017, it was revealed that he received an offer from JTEKT Stings.[17]
Nishida's V.League debut was on January 6, 2018, in a match against Sakai Blazers.[18] Nishida was introduced midway through the first set. Although they lost the match in straight sets, Nishida played an imposing role with 15 spikes, 10 runs scored, and a high attack decision rate of 66.7%. The next day, he made an appearance against JT Thunders. Nishida scored 26 points, the most on the team, with a high attack decision rate of 56.4% again in a heated match that went to a full set against the powerful JT. The team lost the match by a set count of 2–3. JTEKT finished 6th in the season and advanced to the "Final 6", but did not advance beyond that. They lost to the Panasonic Panthers and finished as runners-up, but Nishida received the Wakawashi Award, (Young Eagle Award) which is the Rookie of the Year award.[19]
2018/19 season
He was called up to the Senior National team for the first time in April of the same year after graduation. Nishida made his senior national team debut on May 25, 2018, in his first Nations League match in Rouen, France. He was named a starter in that match against Australia, and played the full four sets, scoring 15 points. In the third week of the "Japan Round" held at the Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium, the team faced Italy after losing in straight sets to Bulgaria and Poland. Nishida, who played the full match, scored 24 points, including three service aces, and was the best scorer of both teams combined, and the team won in full sets. Japan won in full sets for the first time in 11 years against a strong team that had won three consecutive World Championships. In the end, Japan finished the tournament at 12th place with 6 wins and 9 losses.
Then, in September, he competed in the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, jointly hosted by Italy and Bulgaria. Nishida did not play in the game against Italy due to a minor foot injury, and the team lost straight away. The opening match of the season was moved up by one match, so there were three days left before the second match against the Dominican Republic, and Nishida returned to the court in the third set. The team won in straight sets but lost the next match against Slovenia and the match against Belgium, in which Nishida returned to the starting lineup, to finish with one win and three losses.[20]
In the V.League 2018–19 season, JTEKT Stings stagnated in 7th place, out of the playoffs. Nishida scored 570 points, ranking third in total points scored, behind two foreign contributors from other teams. He maintained a high attack decision rate of 50.7%, which ranked 9th. In terms of the number of blocks decided, he was ranked fourth (50 points), breaking in among the middle blockers. Along with Nishida, the other candidate was Issei Otake of Panasonic Panthers, who won that season's Rookie of the Year which is usually given to rookies active for less than three years, with overwhelming strength. [21]
2019/20 Season
In April 2019, Yuji Nishida was selected to represent Japan for the second year in a row. After completing the national team training camp, they went to the Nations League qualifying round that started on May 31 and lasted for about a month. Nishida played a full game in 12 of 15 matches, and Japan finished 10th with 7 wins and 8 losses. The team moved up two places from the previous year's competition but did not advance to the final round. In the following 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship in Iran, which started on September 13, in the match against Australia at the semifinals was a loss and a win over Korea in the third-place match.
The following October, the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup was held in Japan and the opening match was with Italy which was a victory for Japan. Nishida scored 16 points. Japan played a total of 11 games in a row, with one or two days off in between. After a good start, Japan lost to Poland in the second round and the United States in the fourth round, but from the fifth to the ninth round, Japan won five consecutive games for the first time in the history of the tournament. In the seventh round, they also won their first World Cup match against Russia, who was ranked fifth in the world at the time, with a set count of 3–1, and were hopeful of winning their first medal in 42 years with 5 wins and 2 losses.[22]
Egypt, the opponent in the eighth match, was ranked 13th in the world at that time, and the Japanese team, ranked 11th, needed a victory for sure. Japan won the fifth set 15-13 for their sixth win. In the ninth match, the team defeated Iran, the champion of the Asian Men's Volleyball Championship held in September of the same year, by a set count of 3–1. Japan became the first country in history to win five consecutive World Cup games to secure fourth place or higher. The opponent for the tenth match was Brazil, the Rio Olympics champion. Nishida, who scored a team-leading 17 points in the game.
Then, in the final match against Canada, which ended the fruitful World Cup, Nishida delivered even bigger surprises to Japanese fans. At 8–9, behind by one point, Nishida spiked from the right and went back to serve. In the second one, he broke the serve-receive of the left attacker and scored consecutive aces. The third serve was not an ace, but it was still a broken serve-receive, and middle blocker Akihiro Yamauchi shut it out with a block. The fourth one was another service ace, which almost decided the match at 13–9. On the fifth serve, the toss drifted forward a bit. Nevertheless, he hit the ball as hard as he could and took the ace making Canada take a time-out. After the time-out Nishida came back and with a service ace, he wrapped up the match.
Nishida scored a total of 174 points in the tournament, placing him third overall in the best scorer rankings. He scored 29 service aces, the only player among the competitors to have more than 20. He was awarded "Best Server" and "Best Opposite" for his impressive performance.[23]
Not satisfied with his first top-four finish in 28 years, Nishida went on to lead his team to their first V.League title. The first game of the regular round against these champions is the last home game of the first leg (November 23). A huge cheering section from JTEKT's headquarters rushed to the venue, which was packed to capacity, but JTEKT Stings lost to Panasonic Panthers in straight sets, 0–3. The ace Nishida also scored 30 points. In the 3rd match on Feb 8, with an eye on the final stage, they showed their strength in the blocks and won in straight sets. After winning the first-place match, Panasonic Panthers also won the next day's match to finish first in the regular round. JTEKT Stings, on the other hand, finished second and advanced to the finals. JTEKT had beaten Suntory, who had advanced to that point, and now faced the final match with Panasonic Panthers. That match was decided to be a non-spectator due to the spread of the new Coronavirus infection. At one point, there was news that the game would be canceled, but if that had happened, according to the league's rules, the winner would have been Panasonic Panthers, which had been ranked higher in the regular round.
Finally, on February 29 the match took place. The championship has been out of reach since the team was founded. Nishida, who greatly contributed to the achievement of this long-cherished dream, won the titles of "High scorer" and "Serve Effectiveness Rate," which were fixed at the end of the regular round, as well as MVP.[24][25][26]
2020/21 season
In February 2020, Nishida had a name in 2020 Japan's national team roster,[27] The team would participate in many competitions in 2020 which were held to preparing for 2020 Summer Olympics.[28] But later, "2020 Volleyball Ariake Arena Test Match-TOKYO CHALLENGE CUP" which would held on April 21–26, was canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. So, the team held the inside-team competition without the outsiders.
December 2020, in the Japanese Emperor's Cup, JTEKT Stings finished at the 1st place of the competition by defeated Panasonic Panthers in 3–1 set. Nishida made many scores for his team, 4 points from serving, 30 points from attacking and 3 points from blocking.[29]
For the V.League, JTEKT Stings ended this season at rank 4th with total 34 matches, 23 wins and 11 loses. Nishida was the 2nd top scorer of this season, the 1st among Japanese players, with 899 points.[30] His block number per set increased from 0.49 last season to 0.61 this season and he is the best scorer from serving.[31][32]
2021/22 season
On April 5, 2021, Japan Volleyball Association (JVA) announced the Japanese national team roster for this season through the officially website,[33] competing for the all tournaments in 2021 and Nishida was one of the roster. On May 1–2, JVA hold "Volleyball Japan National Team International Friendly Match-Tokyo Challenge 2021", preparing for 2020 Summer Olympics which be held in July, Nishida was the starting player of two matches.[34] Japanese team beat China with a set count 3–2 and 3–1 respectively.[35][36]
Then, in the "2021 Volleyball Men's National Team Red and White Match", which is a competing between Japanese national team themselves, Nishida had a name in starting player of the red team on 8th.[37][38] In the early of the first set, Nishida got an injury on his right ankle after landed from blocking, he couldn't walk by himself so he got carried out from the court and was taken to the hospital. The head coach of the team said that Nishida had taken a roentgen, the result was he had no fractures and was diagnosed with a sprain on the right ankle. Additionally, they had to consider about the further detailed inspection.[39][40][41]
Nishida had the name in the 2021 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League Japanese team roster, the competition would hold in Rimini, Italy, although he wasn't fully recovered.[42][43] He was back in the third week of the tournament, in the game with Poland, as a substitute and came back in the starting line up in the match against Bulgaria, Japanese team won with in a straight set and he was the best scorer of the game.[44]
On June 21, Japan Volleyball Association announced the Japanese team roster for 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Nishida had a name as one of the opposite hitters.[45] and was a starting lineup in every match. Nishida was the best scorer in the match that Japan beat Canada 3–1 set count, made 23 points.[46] In the match against Iran, Japanese team needed to win for advance to the quarterfinals round, Nishida made 30 point, made him to be the best scorer of the match and led the team to the next round after 29 years.[47][48] Moreover, he became the first player of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to break the 30–point scoring mark in the men event and was the tenth player, and first Japanese, since the introduction of the rally scoring system.[49][50][51]
On August 9, Nishida had official announcement that he would transfer to play in Italian Volleyball League for Volley Callipo club in the 2021–22 season.[3][4][5]
On November 3, his club had a schedule to face with Power Volley Milano, which he would competed against Yūki Ishikawa, his compatriot. It marked the first time that the Japanese player competed against each other in Italian league.[52] On November 14, in the match against Consar RCM Ravenna, Nishida led the team won over Revenna 3–0 and that made him became the top scorer and MVP of the match.[53]
On November 22, in the match against Volley Lube, he injured his left calf at the early of second set, which took him out of the court.[54][55][56] As a result, he was unable to participate in the next game against BluVolley Verona.[57][58]
Nishida recovered for about 2 months and absent from the court for many matches. He came back, on mid-January, at the bench in the game that Vibo Valentia met Milano which his team lost in the straight set, without his appearance in the court. He started his first game after a long recovery against Volley Piacenza which he loss with 3–0 set. On January 30, Nishida scored 28 points, including 2 aces, and made his team won over Consar RCM Ravenna within four sets. Celebrating his 22nd birthday with his second MVP award. The match againt Verona on February 10, he took the MVP award again by led the team won and he scored total 29 points which contain 8 aces, the most in the league's first round.[59][60][61]
On March 2022, it was reported that after the end of the season, Nishida will return to play in his domestic league.[62]
2022/23 season
On April 4, 2022, Japan Volleyball Association (JVA) announced the 2022 Japanese roster for competing in Nations League, Asian Games and World Championship. Nishida had the name among 35-player roster after didn't joint the team in 2021 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship tournament last year, due to his preparation for Italian league and the injury.[63]
Awards
Individuals
- 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League — Top 4 Best Scorers at Preliminary Round [64]
- 2018–19 V.League 1 — Rookie of the Year[65][66][67]
- 2018–19 V.League 1 — Best Servers [68][66][67]
- 2018–19 V.League 1 — 3rd Best Scorer [68]
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League — Top 2 Best Scorers at Preliminary Round [69]
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League — Top 2 Best Servers at Preliminary Round [69]
- 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship — Best Servers
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup — Best Opposite Spiker[70]
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup — Best Servers[71]
- 2019–20 V.League 1 — Most Valuable Player[72]
- 2019–20 V.League 1 — Best Scorers[73]
- 2019–20 V.League 1 — Best Servers[74][75]
- 2019–20 V.League 1 — Best Opposite Spiker
- 2019–20 V.League 1 — Best 6
- 2020–21 the Japanese Emperor's Cup — Most Valuable Player [76]
- 2020–21 V.League 1 — Best Servers at preliminary round[77]
- 2020–21 V.League 1 — V.League Japan record award player, highest score from Japanese player in the history (with 833 points)[78][79]
- 2020–21 V.League 1 — Top 2 best scorer at final round[80]
- 2020–21 V.League 1 — Top 2 best serve effective rate at final round[81]
Club teams
Junior national team
- 2017 Asian Boys' U19 Volleyball Championship —
Gold medal in Myanmar
National team
- 2019 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship —
Bronze medal in Iran
Personal life
- Nishida started playing volleyball after watching his sister playing the sport.
- He listed watching movies and shopping as his hobbies.
- He has an elder sister 8 years older than him and a brother 6 years older than him.[13]
- In the interview, he said his idol is Yūki Ishikawa, Masahiro Yanagida,[86] Michal Kubiak and Hiroaki Asano.[87]
- In 2020, there was announced that he would support Asics, a Japanese multinational corporation which produces sports equipment, through product promotions and advertisement.[88]
- In February 2021, Nishida had entered a sports sponsorship agreement with Zamst, a brand of athletic braces and care products.[89][90]
- In October 2021, it was announced that Nishida had signed a partnership with CLEVER, Japanese protein brand.[91]
- He started his own Youtube Channel on Dec 6, 2020. And it easily surpassed 100,000 subscribers in 6 months.
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External links
- Yuji Nishida on Twitter
- Japan's Nishida Yuji on high trajectory to Tokyo 2020 at olympic.com
- 西田有志に備わった強烈スパイク、サーブだけじゃない武器とは? at number.bunshun.jp
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- 西田有志のイタリア挑戦は背番号「2」でスタート。バルドヴィン監督「4選手の獲得は我々の念願だった」 at Yahoo! Japan
- 男子バレー西田有志がセリエAで新たなスタート。それでも「海外だけが正解じゃない」と話す理由 at sportiva.shueisha
- 日本バレーが28年ぶりの4位と躍進。2つの武器が好調の要因だった at sportiva.shueisha
- Tonno Callipo, altro test utile con Perugia a 8 giorni dall’esordio a Taranto at Volley Callipo
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