Shizuoka, Japan, is a significant source of football talent — 122 association football players on Wikidata list the city as their place of birth. The most notable are Kazuyoshi Miura, Takashi Hirano and Kenta Hasegawa. Among them are 118 male and 4 female players. Documented players span more than 93 years, from 1912 to 2005.
