Size Doesn’t Matter | Crazy Short Player Skills in Volleyball
Size Doesn’t Matter | Crazy Short Player Skills in Volleyball
Yūji Nishida
Personal information
Nickname Yuji
Nationality Japanese
Born 30 January 2000 (age 21) Mie, Japan
Hometown Inabe
Height m
Weight 87 kg
Spike 351 cm
Block 335 cm
Yuji Nishida (西田 有志, Nishida Yūji, born 30 January 2000) is a Japanese male volleyball player. Currently, he plays for Volley Callipo in Italian Volleyball League.
Nishida made his debut with JTEKT Stings at on 6 January 2018 in a match against Osaka Blazers Sakai. His impressive debut at the young age of 17 soon earned him a position in JTEKT’s Starting 6 [5] as well as Japan men’s national volleyball team. Nishida is also representing Japan in the Tokyo Olympics.
He is one of the youngest players in the 2018 roster of the Japan men’s national volleyball team and FIVB cup Final. He made his first international performance with the Japanese national team