Nozomi Kimura

Nozomi Seijiro Kimura Heredia ( Kimura Nozomi, born 23 January 1997) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a centre-back for Deportes Copiapó on loan from Deportes Concepción.

Club career In 2014, at the age of 17, he was promoted to Santiago Morning’s first-adult team. Since that year he has played as starter during three years at the Primera B (second-tier).

In August 2025, Kimura joined Deportes Concepción from Brujas de Salamanca. The next year, he moved on loan to Deportes Copiapó.

International career In 2017, he was called up to under-20 national team by coach Héctor Robles to face the South American Youth Championship at Ecuador.

In November 2016, Kimura starred in Somos Chile (We are Chile), a web series created by the ANFP which reflects the process of multiculturalism that Chile has been going through that decade, in hopes to combat forms of discrimination such as racism and xenophobia. In the series, Kimura revealed that he was sometimes bullied by his teammates due to his Japanese name.