Hidetoshi Nakata
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Hidetoshi Nakata | ||
Personal information | ||
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Full name | Hidetoshi Nakata | |
Date of birth | January 22, 1977 (age 30) | |
Place of birth | Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan | |
Height | 1.75 m | |
Nickname | Hide | |
Playing position | Midfielder | |
Youth clubs | ||
1986–1989 1989–1992 1992–1995 |
Hokushin Boys Soccer Club Kofu Kita Jr. H.S. Nirasaki H.S. |
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Senior clubs1 | ||
Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
1995–1998 1998–2000 2000–2001 2001-2004 2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 |
Bellmare Hiratsuka Perugia Roma Parma Bologna Fiorentina Bolton Wanderers |
85 (16) 48 (12) 30 (5) 67 (5) 17 (2) 26 (0) 16 (1) |
National team | ||
1997–2006 | Japan | 77 (11) |
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
Hidetoshi Nakata (中田 英寿 Nakata Hidetoshi; born January 22, 1977 in Yamanashi Prefecture), is a Japanese former football player. He was one of the most famous Asian footballers of his generation.
Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997 and 1998, the Scudetto with A.S. Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three FIFA World Cup tournaments(1998, 2002 and 2006) and played in the Olympics twice (1996 and 2000). In 2005, he was made the Knight of the Star of Italian Solidarity, one of the Italy's highest honours, for improving the country's image overseas.[1] Nakata is known as a fashion icon, regularly attending runway shows and wearing designer fashion.
Nakata announced his retirement at age 29 on July 3, 2006 after a ten-year career that included seven seasons in the Italian Serie A and a season in the English Premiership.
Pelé named Hidetoshi Nakata in his 125 Top Living Footballers in March 2004.
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[edit] Biography
Nakata began his professional career at age 18 in 1995, with J. League side Bellmare Hiratsuka (now Shonan Bellmare). He represented Japan at the 1996 Olympics, where Japan upset Brazil.[2] Nakata also appeared in the 2000 Olympics.
He made his senior national team debut in May 1997 against South Korea and was a key member of the Japanese side that qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, setting up all three Japanese goals in the qualification play-off against Iran. After the World Cup in France, he moved to Perugia in Italy's Serie A.
In January 2000, after one and a half seasons at Perugia, Nakata moved to Roma, whom he helped win the Serie A championship with two late goals to secure a 2-2 draw against league rivals Juventus. He also helped Japan reach the final of the 2001 Confederations Cup that season, but left the national team before the final to join Roma for their final league matches.[3]
In 2001, he joined Parma, where he played for two and a half seasons.
Nakata played in every match for Japan at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by South Korea and Japan, and scored a goal against Tunisia.
In January 2004, Nakata joined Bologna where he played the remainder of the 2003/04 season before moving to Fiorentina, where he played the 2004/05 season.
In August 2005, Nakata moved to Premiership side Bolton Wanderers on loan.
At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Nakata played in all three matches for Japan, losing to Australia and Brazil, and drawing with Croatia. Although Nakata has appeared in every World Cup match that Japan has played thus far, he was not selected for the country's Asian Cup-winning squads in either 2000 or 2004.
On July 3, 2006, Nakata announced his retirement from professional football and the Japanese national team on his personal website "I decided half a year ago that I would retire from the world of professional football... after the World Cup in Germany," Nakata wrote, "I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game."[4][5]
Nakata has cited the popular manga and anime series, Captain Tsubasa, as his primary inspiration in choosing football as a career.[6]
[edit] Clubs
- Bolton Wanderers August 2005 - May 2006 (loan deal)
- Fiorentina July 2004 - August 2005
- Bologna January 2004 - July 2004 (loan deal)
- Parma July 2001 - January 2004
- Roma January 2000 - July 2001
- Perugia July 1998 - January 2000
- Bellmare Hiratsuka (Japan) 1997 - July 1998
[edit] Club career stats
!Season | Club | Country | Div | Apps | Goals | Assists | Team Record |
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1995 | Bellmare Hiratsuka | Japan | 1 | 26 | 8 | ? | 11th place |
1996 | Bellmare Hiratsuka | Japan | 1 | 26 | 2 | ? | 11th place |
1997 | Bellmare Hiratsuka | Japan | 1 | 21 | 3 | 9 | 8th place |
1998 | Bellmare Hiratsuka | Japan | 1 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 11th place |
1998-99 | Perugia | Italy | 1 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 14th place |
1999-00 | Perugia | Italy | 1 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 10th place |
Roma | Italy | 1 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 6th place | |
2000-01 | Roma | Italy | 1 | 15 | 2 | 1 | Champions |
2001-02 | Parma | Italy | 1 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 10th place |
2002-03 | Parma | Italy | 1 | 31 | 4 | 4 | 5th place |
2003-04 | Parma | Italy | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 5th place |
Bologna | Italy | 1 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 12th place | |
2004-05 | Fiorentina | Italy | 1 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 16th place |
2005-06 | Bolton Wanderers | England | 1 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 8th place |
[edit] National team
- 1998 FIFA World Cup
- 2001 Confederations Cup
- 2002 FIFA World Cup
- 2003 Confederations Cup
- 2005 Confederations Cup
- 2006 FIFA World Cup
[edit] Honors
- FIFA Confederations Cup Runner-up: 2001
- Serie A Champions: 2001 (with AS Roma)
- Coppa Italia: 2002 (with AC Parma)
- Selected to FIFA 100: 2004
- FIFA Confederations Cup Best Eleven: 2001
- AFC Asian Player of the Year: 1997 1998
- J-League Best Eleven: 1997
[edit] Fashion
Outside of football Nakata has shown interest in fashion, attending runway shows, wearing designer clothing and sporting colorful haircuts. He dyed his hair red for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, hoping to attract the attention of European scouts, and Japanese hairstylist Aki Watanabe credits him as a trendsetter in hair styles.[7] Andrea Tenerani, photographer for GQ in Italy said of Nakata, "He's perfect; he's like a model. And he's totally obsessed with fashion,"[8] and Calvin Klein designer Italo Zucchelli said, "(Nakata) plays with fashion like all of them now, but in a cooler, more sophisticated way than many others." [9]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ "Arise, Sir Nak!", This Is Lancashire, 2005-10-14. Retrieved on July 3, 2006.
- ^ "Japan in need of miracle", 2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006-06-21. Retrieved on July 3, 2006.
- ^ "Just making the final was a triumph for cup co-host", Associated Press, 2001-06-11. Retrieved on July 3, 2006.
- ^ "Japan and Bolton midfielder Nakata to retire", Reuters, 2006-07-03. Retrieved on July 3, 2006.
- ^ "To live is to journey, and to journey is to live.", nakata.net, 2006-07-03. Retrieved on January 22, 2007.
- ^ ‘I don’t understand why people are football fans. I don’t like to watch any kind of sport’ - by Jonathan Northcroft, The Sunday Times, January 1, 2006.
- ^ Efe Sodje. "Footballers ... haircuts. Not always the best combination!", BBC, 2002. Retrieved on July 4, 2006.
- ^ J. J. Martin. "Feast for marketers: It's all about soccer", International Herald Tribune, 2002-07-01. Retrieved on July 4, 2006.
- ^ Eric Wilson. "BLEACH IT LIKE BECKHAM: World Cup of hair style", New York Times, 2006-06-22. Retrieved on July 4, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Nakata.net Official website
- Career profile and stats at FootballDatabase
- Player profile at official 2006 FIFA World Cup site
- Hidetoshi Nakata Revealed, on CNN.com
Preceded by Khodadad Azizi |
Asian Footballer of the Year 1997 |
Succeeded by retained |
Preceded by retained |
Asian Footballer of the Year 1998 |
Succeeded by Ali Daei |
Japan squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup | ||
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1 Kojima | 2 Narahashi | 3 Soma | 4 Ihara | 5 Omura | 6 Yamaguchi | 7 Ito | 8 Nakata | 9 Nakayama | 10 Nanami | 11 Ono | 12 Lopes | 13 Hattori | 14 Okano | 15 Morishima | 16 Saito | 17 Akita | 18 Jo | 19 Nakanishi | 20 Kawaguchi | 21 Narazaki | 22 Hirano | Coach: Okada |
Japan squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup | ||
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1 Kawaguchi | 2 Akita | 3 Matsuda | 4 Morioka | 5 Inamoto | 6 Hattori | 7 H. Nakata | 8 Morishima | 9 Nishizawa | 10 Nakayama | 11 Suzuki | 12 Narazaki | 13 Yanagisawa | 14 Santos | 15 Fukunishi | 16 K. Nakata | 17 Miyamoto | 18 Ono | 19 Ogasawara | 20 Myojin | 21 Toda | 22 Ichikawa | 23 Sogahata | Coach: Troussier |
Japan squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup | ||
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1 Narazaki | 2 Moniwa | 3 Komano | 4 Endo | 5 Miyamoto | 6 K. Nakata | 7 H. Nakata | 8 Ogasawara | 9 Takahara | 10 Nakamura | 11 Maki | 12 Doi | 13 Yanagisawa | 14 Santos | 15 Fukunishi | 16 Oguro | 17 Inamoto | 18 Ono | 19 Tsuboi | 20 Tamada | 21 Kaji | 22 Nakazawa | 23 Kawaguchi | Coach: Zico |
Categories: 1977 births | Living people | People from Yamanashi Prefecture | Japanese footballers | Olympic footballers of Japan | Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics | Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Perugia Calcio players | A.S. Roma players | Parma F.C. players | Fiorentina players | FA Premier League players | Bolton Wanderers F.C. players | Shonan Bellmare players | Japanese footballers in Europe | FIFA 100 | Football (soccer) midfielders | FIFA World Cup 1998 players | FIFA World Cup 2002 players | FIFA World Cup 2006 players | Japan international footballers