Yuki Abe

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Personal information
Yuki Abe
Full name	Yuki Abe
Date of birth	September 6, 1981 (age 25)
Place of birth	Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan
Height	177cm
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Urawa Reds
Youth clubs
??-1993 1994-1998	Ichikawa FC JEF United Ichihara Youth
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-2006 2007-	JEF United Ichihara Chiba Urawa Reds	214 (36)
National team²
2005-	Japan	14 (1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 January 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 24 March 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Yuki Abe (阿部勇樹, Abe Yūki^?, born September 6, 1981 in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan) is a Japanese footballer, a midfielder for the Urawa Red Diamonds of the J-League and the Japanese national team.

On August 5, 1998, Abe, then a member of the JEF United Ichihara (now JEF United Ichihara Chiba) youth side, made his debut with the senior club at the age of 16 years and 333 days, at the time a record for the youngest Japanese professional player and J-League. He went on to become JEF United's captain, and led the club to the 2005 and 2006 J. League Cup titles while being named to the league's Best Eleven during the span.

Abe made his senior national team debut on January 29, 2005, in a friendly match against Kazakhstan and scored his first national team goal on September 6, 2006 against Yemen in a 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification match. He was not selected to Japan's 2006 FIFA World Cup team, but he has become a regular under his former JEF United coach Ivica Osim, who took over as the national team head coach after the World Cup. He had previously represented Japan at the Under-20 and Under-23 levels, appearing in all three first round matches at the 2004 Olympics and scoring a goal against Italy.

On January 22, 2007, Abe joined Urawa, the defending J. League and Emperor's Cup champions, for a transfer fee of around ¥360 million (around $3 million), a record amount for a Japanese player in a domestic deal.^[1]

1 Honors and awards
- 1.1 Individual
- 1.2 Team
2 National Team Career Statistics
- 2.1 Appearaces in Major Competitions
- 2.2 Goals for Senior National Team
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Individual

J. League Best Eleven: 2005, 2006

[edit] Team

J. League Cup Champions: 2005, 2006

[edit] National Team Career Statistics

[edit] Appearaces in Major Competitions

Team	Competition	Category	Appearances		Goals	Team Record
Team	Competition	Category	Start	Sub	Goals	Team Record
Japan	2004 Olympics	U-23	3	0	1	Round 1
Japan	2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification	Senior	5	0	1	Qualified

[edit] Goals for Senior National Team

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	August 16, 2006	Niigata, Japan	Yemen	2-0	Won	2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification

[edit] References

^ "Abe makes record switch to Japan's Urawa Reds", Reuters, 2007-01-22. Retrieved on 2007-01-22.

[edit] External links

Urawa Reds - Current Squad
1 Yamagishi \| 2 Tsuboi \| 3 Hosogai \| 4 Tulio \| 5 Nenê \| 6 Yamada \| 7 Sakai \| 8 Ono \| 9 Nagai \| 10 Ponte \| 11 Tanaka \| 12 Tsutsumi \| 13 Suzuki \| 14 Hirakawa \| 15 Escudero \| 16 Soma \| 17 Hasebe \| 18 Koike \| 19 Uchidate \| 20 Horinouchi \| 21 Washington \| 22 Abe \| 23 Tsuzuki \| 24 Sakamoto \| 25 Akahoshi \| 26 Nakamura \| 27 Nishizawa \| 28 Kato \| 29 Otani \| 30 Okano \| Manager: Osieck