Masaru Akiba


Masaru Akiba is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career

Akiba was born in Kaminoyama on February 19, 1984. He joined J2 League club Montedio Yamagata from youth team in 2002. He played many matches as defensive midfielder from first season and became a regular player in 2006. Montedio won the 2nd place in 2008 season and was promoted to J1 League first time in the club history. However the club results were sluggish in J1 and was relegated to J2 end of 2011 season. Montedio won the 6th place in 2014 season and was promoted to J1 again. Montedio also won the 2nd place in 2014 Emperor's Cup. However he moved to newly was promoted to J2 League club, Zweigen Kanazawa in 2015 without playing in J1. At Zweigen, he played as regular player. In 2016, he moved to J2 club FC Gifu. However he could hardly play in the match. In July 2016, he re-joined Zweigen Kanazawa. He played many matches in 2016. However he could hardly play in the match in 2017 and retired end of 2017 season.

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