TAKAMATSU -- Kamatamare Sanuki, a member of the Shikoku Soccer League based in Kagawa Prefecture, has appointed wheelchair using Masashi Hachuda as its manager, the club announced.

Hachuda, 43, until now a soccer commentator, will take charge of the team for next season.

Hachuda was a star schoolboy soccer player, spearheading Yamanashi Prefectural Nirasaki High School to consecutive national schoolboy titles in 1980 and 1981.

But, shortly after his schoolboy exploits, the star striker was involved in a traffic accident that left him a paraplegic.

Hachuda secured his Grade S professional soccer coaching license with the Japan Football Association in September last year. He was the first disabled person in Japan to secure the license.

Kamatamare will be the first team Hachuda has managed.

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