Tetsuro Kiyooka


Tetsuro Kiyooka is a Japanese entrepreneur and FIFA Players' Agent. He holds Permanent residency in Canada, and his ancestors are the Shizoku in Tosa Province, Japan, as well as a distant relative of Roy Kiyooka.

Sports agent

In 2006, he passed a FIFA Players' Agent exam and registered with The Football Association, the Royal Dutch Football Association and the Japan Football Association as an official agent. After that, he represented top Japanese players such as Keisuke Honda, Maya Yoshida and led them to the football clubs in European leagues.

Japan Pro-Footballers Association (JPFA)

In 2009, Kiyooka was designated as a chief operating officer of the Japan Pro-Footballers Association by Toshiya Fujita, a chairman of the board. He repealed the unfair transfer regulations between the clubs of J.League and the professional players in 2009 and formed the organization as a trade union in 2011. Also, he represented the players of the Japan national football team to protect their rights and payments.

Web development

In 2005, Kiyooka collaborated with NTT Communications to create a football site called Nippon World Soccer on mobile internet services in Japan. The mobile football site acquired over one million users a month in 2006 and became the biggest football mobile site in Japan at that time.