Masayoshi Manabe | |
Height: | 1.87 m |
Birth Date: | 21 August 1963 |
Birth Place: | Himeji, Hyōgo, Japan |
Position: | Setter |
Teamnumber: | 5 |
Nationalyears: | 1985–2003 |
Masayoshi Manabe (真鍋 政義 Manabe Masayoshi, born 21 August 1963) is a Japanese volleyball coach and former player, who played as a setter for the Japanese men's national volleyball team in the 1980s and 1990s. Manabe played at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where he finished in tenth place. He competed at the 1986 Goodwill Games in Moscow and won a bronze medal.[1]
Manabe took fifteenth place at the 1998 World Championship in Japan.
In December 2008, the Japan Volleyball Association announced it had invited him to be the head coach of the Japanese women's national volleyball team.