Tsutomu Ogura (小倉 勉, Ogura Tsutomu, born July 18, 1963) is a Japanese football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of the Singapore national team.[1]
Coaching career
In 1990, Ogura was selected to become the head coach of the Germany club Werder Bremen youth.
In 2006, Ogura became assistant coach for the Japan national team under managers rejoining Ivica Osim (2006–2007) and Takeshi Okada (2008–2010) where Ogura was part of the squad that advanced to the knockout round in during 2010 FIFA World Cup.
After the Summer Olympics, Ogura became the assistant coach for Omiya Ardija, a Japanese club playing in the J1 League under manager Zdenko Verdenik.[2] In August 2013, Verdenik was fired and Ogura was promoted to head coach where he got his coaching duties on 24 August 2013 in a 3–2 lost to Kashiwa Reysol.
Later, Ogura became the assistant coach for Ventforet Kofu (2014–2015)[3] and JEF United Chiba (2015–2016).[4] He then served as the sporting director for Yokohama F. Marinos from 2018 to 2022. Later on, Ogura became an assistant manager for Tokyo Verdy under Hiroshi Jofuku, notably being present when Tokyo Verdy got promoted to the J1 League at the end of the 2023 J2 League season.
