Mami Yamaguchi

Mami Yamaguchi (山口 麻美) is a Japanese football coach and former player. She is currently an assistant coach with the NWSL's Washington Spirit. She played for the Japan national team and last played for Detroit City FC.

Club career
Yamaguchi previously played for the Florida State Seminoles at the collegiate level, where she won the MAC Hermann Trophy in 2007. She became the first player in Florida State Soccer history to have her jersey retired. She played for Atlanta Beat (WPS) in the United States and Umeå IK, where she won the double, and made it to UEFA Champions Cup Final, and Hammarby in Sweden's Damallsvenskan.

She joined United Women's Soccer amateur club AFC Ann Arbor in 2019, scoring the team's first-ever goal.

National team career
On 28 July 2007, Yamaguchi debuted for Japan national team against the United States. She played 18 games and scored 8 goals for Japan until 2011.

Coaching career
Yamaguchi began coaching as a volunteer at Florida State during the 2015-16 season. In 2019, she took an assistant coach position with Livonia City F.C., a club now in the second division of United Women's Soccer. In 2021, she became a player-coach at Detroit City FC.

In April 2023, National Women's Soccer League club Washington Spirit hired Yamaguchi as an assistant coach, reuniting her with former Florida State head coach Mark Krikorian, who had become the Spirit's general manager.