Mitsutake Hagimoto

Mitsutake Hagimoto

Date of birth	(1959-02-10) February 10, 1959
Place of birth	Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
School	Hotoku Gakuen High School
University	Doshisha University
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) ????-1982 Doshisha University RFC () Senior career Years Team Apps (Points) 1982-1991 Kobe Steel () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1987 Japan 1 (0) Coaching career Years Team 1991-1998 Kobe Steel 2002 Japan women's 2003-2005 Japan 2006-2007 Japan U19 2007-2009 NTT Docomo Kansai 2009 Japan women's

Mitsutake Hagimoto (萩本 光威, Hagimoto Mitsutake) (born 10 February 1959 in Wakayama Prefecture) is a former Japanese rugby player and coach . He played as scrum-half.

Career

Hagimoto began playing rugby since the elementary school at 4 years. He graduated from Hotoku Gakuen High School and from Doshisha University. With Doshisha, he won the University championship at the end of his fourth year in university. In 1982, Hagimoto joined Kobe Steel, playing in the company's rugby club and contributing to the team's best in Japan. He had a cap for Japan in the 1987 Rugby World Cup, during the pool match against England, at Sydney. When Masami Horikoshi joined Kobe Steel in 1991, then, Hagimoto went back to support the team. In 1998, he took office as head coach. He had the second place in the Japanese Championship. In 2002, Hagimoto led Japan women's national rugby union team in the 2002 Women's Rugby World Cup as head coach. Between 2004 and 2005 he was the coach of the Japanese national team. Later, he worked as coach of the Japan under-19 national rugby union team. After coaching NTT Docomo Kansai, he was reappointed as Japan women's national rugby union team's head coach in 2009. Currently, Hagimoto works for Kobe Steel, in the Kobe Head Office Secretary Public Relations Department.

External links

• 2019 ALL FOR JAPAN TEAM
• Mitsutake Hagimoto at ESPNscrum