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Yuichi Matsumoto

He was born in São Paulo, in 1980. He signed with the Yakult Swallows in 1999. Though initially ineligible to be part of the first-squad roster due to the cap on foreign players, he gained Japanese citizenship in 2004 and played with the first team with increasing regularity.
Matsumoto represented the Brazil at the 1999 Pan American Games and at the 2002 Intercontinental Cup. At the 2013 World Baseball Classic, where Brazil qualified for the first time, he was named the team's captain. Provided by Wikipedia