Hidetoshi Nakata, Cavaliere OSSI ( 中田 英寿, Nakata Hidetoshi, born 22 January 1977 ) is a japanese former master football player who played as a midfielder. He is wide considered to be one of the greatest japanese players of all time. [ 1 ] 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 Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three World Cup tournaments ( 1998, 2002 and 2006 ) and competed in the Olympics doubly ( 1996 and 2000 ). [ 2 ] In 2005, he was made the Knight of the Order of the Star of italian Solidarity, one of Italy ‘s highest honors, for improving the nation ‘s visualize oversea. [ 3 ] Nakata has besides been involved in fashion, regularly attending runway shows and wearing designer clothing.
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Nakata announced his retirement at age 29 on 3 July 2006, after a ten-year career that included seven seasons in the italian Serie A and a season in the English Premier League. In March 2004, Pelé named Nakata in his FIFA 100, a list of the top living footballers at the time. Nakata was the merely japanese, and one of only two asian footballers to be named on the list. In 2018, Nakata was added as an icon to the Ultimate team on the FIFA video recording game FIFA 19 .
Club career [edit ]
early career [edit ]
Nakata began his master career at old age 18 in 1995, with J1 League side Bellmare Hiratsuka ( now Shonan Bellmare ). He played many matches as offensive midfielder from first season and the club won the champions in 1995 asian Cup Winners ‘ Cup first asian title in cabaret history. At the final against Al-Talaba, he scored a winning finish in the 81st minute. [ 4 ] From 1996, he became a regular player and he was selected J.League Best eleven in 1997. After the 1998 World Cup in France, Nakata was signed by Perugia in Italy ‘s Serie A for 4 million U.S. dollars, [ 5 ] becoming the moment japanese player ever to appear in the italian top league after Kazuyoshi Miura had done it for Genoa four years earlier. In his first gear temper in Italy, Nakata scored 10 goals, his single-season highest sum .
read-only memory [edit ]
In January 2000, after one and a half seasons at Perugia, Nakata moved to Roma for 42 billion lire, helping the team win the scudetto. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The highlight of Nakata ‘s career at Roma came on 6 May 2001 in the Serie A equal against Juventus at Stadio Delle Alpi. After replacing Francesco Totti in the second half with Roma trailing 0–2, Nakata netted with a 30-yard goal beyond Juventus goalkeeper Edwin van five hundred Sar ‘s reach, with 11 minutes left in the pit. He then helped Roma score the equalizer when his boisterous drive from outside the box was parried by Van five hundred Sar into the path of Vincenzo Montella, who scored for Roma in the last minute. The catch ended with a 2–2 draw and Roma maintained a six-point gross profit at top of the league table. [ 8 ]
Parma [edit ]
In the summer of 2001, Nakata penned a four-year deal with Parma [ 9 ] for a transfer fee of 55 billion lire, a worldly concern record requital for an Asian musician which would not be broken for 14 years. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] He made his club introduction on 8 August 2001 in their 0–2 kill at Stadio Ennio Tardini against Lille in the first peg of the third round of the Champions League. [ 13 ] More than one month subsequently, on 23 September, Nakata scored his first goal for Parma in Serie A at home over Brescia, which besides proved to be the winning goal of the meet. [ 14 ] Nakata played there for two and a one-half seasons, where he scored a crucial finish after coming on as a substitute in the first gear stage of the 2002 Coppa Italia Final against Juventus, [ 15 ] which Parma finally won. [ 16 ]
late years [edit ]
In January 2004, Nakata joined Bologna where he played the remainder of the 2003–04 temper before moving to Fiorentina, where he played the following season. In August 2005, Nakata moved to Premiership side Bolton Wanderers on loan. During his season at Bolton, which would be the last of his professional career, he scored once in the league, in a 2–0 acquire over West Bromwich Albion. [ 17 ]
International career [edit ]
After having represented U-17 Japan at the 1993 U-17 World Championship ( where he scored a goal ) and U-20 Japan at the 1995 U-20 World Championship ( where he scored doubly ), Nakata was part of the U-23 Japan squads at the 1996 Olympics, where Japan upset Brazil, [ 18 ] and at the 2000 Olympics. His senior national team debut came in May 1997 against South Korea. [ 19 ] He was a cardinal penis of the japanese side that qualified for the 1998 World Cup, scoring five goals in qualification matches and setting up all three japanese goals in the qualification play-off against Iran. He helped Japan reach the final of the 2001 Confederations Cup but left the national team before the final to join Roma for their concluding league matches. [ 20 ] Nakata played in all four of Japan ‘s matches at the 2002 World Cup, co-hosted by South Korea and Japan, scoring the second goal of a 2–0 first gear orotund succeed against Tunisia. At the 2006 World Cup, Nakata played in all three matches for Japan, losing to Australia and Brazil, and drawing with Croatia. His performance against Croatia earned him a valet of the Match award. [ 21 ] After the 2006 FIFA World Cup, on 3 July 2006, Nakata announced his retirement from professional football and the japanese national team on his personal web site “ 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 deliver as a professional player. But I will never give up football. ” [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In a 2014 interview in TMW Magazine, Nakata confirmed that he had retired at such a young senesce because he was no longer enjoying football, and wanted alternatively to see what was going on in the worldly concern. [ 24 ] Despite Nakata playing every equal in Japan ‘s first three World Cup appearances, he was not selected for the country ‘s asian Cup -winning squads in 2000 and 2004. In total, he was capped 77 times for Japan, scoring 11 goals, 9 of which came in official FIFA competitions. [ 19 ]
stylus of play [edit ]
A quick, creative, hard-working, and offensive-minded cardinal midfielder, with an eye for goal, Nakata was known for his technical ability, agility, vision, ephemeral, and his ability to make attacking runs into the penalty area and score goals ; he besides possessed a powerful scene from outside the box. [ 1 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] [ 27 ]
Outside football, Nakata has shown sake in manner, attending runway shows, wearing couturier invest and sporting colorful haircuts. He dyed his hair blond for the 1998 World Cup, hoping to attract the attention of european scouts. japanese hairdresser Aki Watanabe credits him as a trendsetter. [ 28 ] Andrea Tenerani, photographer for GQ in Italy said of Nakata, “ He ‘s perfect ; he ‘s like a model. And he ‘s wholly obsessed with manner. ” [ 29 ] Calvin Klein interior designer Italo Zucchelli said, “ ( Nakata ) plays with manner like all of them now, but in a cool, more advanced way than many others. ” [ 30 ] He is one of the models featuring the Calvin Klein underwear campaign 2010. He was featured in the July 2007 US interpretation of GQ with a 12-page spread on drop fashion. He was featured in GQ in his home area in December 2011. [ 31 ]
Nakata ( middle ) at a fashion event in Tokyo, November 2016
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much regarded as a japanese David Beckham, [ 32 ] Nakata is an editor-at-large at Monocle magazine at the invitation of his acquaintance Tyler Brûlé, who serves as the magazine ‘s editor-in-chief. [ 33 ] Nakata has cited the democratic manga and anime serial, Captain Tsubasa, as his primary inspiration in choosing football as a career. [ 34 ] In late years, he has besides been an active assistant of special Olympics football and participated in the 2010 especial Olympics Unity Cup [ 35 ] in South Africa during the World Cup. Nakata was named a Global Ambassador for special Olympics in 2014. [ 36 ] Towards the end of 2015, Nakata entered into a partnership with Kee Club in Hong Kong to open Koko, a Hong Kong-based restaurant that serves sakes created by Nakata himself. He has developed his own course of sake a well as creating his own fluid educational app, “ Sakenomy ”. Expressing interest in educating the populace about sake, Nakata stated, “ People recognise brands of wine but not normally brands of sake. There is a lack of information and post when it comes to sake. That ’ s why I thought I needed to create a brand that people can recognise and understand. My determination is to expand the market for all sake not just my own. You can pair any type of cuisine with sake. It can go with french, italian, even taiwanese food, not equitable japanese cuisine. ” [ 37 ]
Media [edit ]
Having been signed to sportswear caller Nike, Nakata featured in Nike ‘s “ Secret Tournament “ ad ( branded “ Scorpion KO ” ) directed by Terry Gilliam, in the buildup to the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. [ 38 ] He appeared aboard other leading football players from around the world, including Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Luís Figo, Thierry Henry, Roberto Carlos and Francesco Totti, with early player Eric Cantona the tournament “ referee ”. [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Nakata featured on the front cover of versatile japanese editions of EA Sports ’ FIFA video game series, including FIFA Football 2002. In 2018, Nakata was added as an icon to the Ultimate Team in FIFA 19. [ 40 ] In the 2012 video recording game Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm / Blizzard Nakata was added as a hide playable actor. He then served an important story function in Inazuma Eleven 3 and its respective anime series, where Nakata would serve as the captain of the italian team Orpheus .
career statistics [edit ]
club [edit ]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club
Season
League
National Cup
League Cup
Continental[a]
Super Cup[b]
Total
Division
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Apps
Goals
Bellmare Hiratsuka
1995
J1 League
26
8
2
1
—
6
1
1
0
35
10
1996
26
2
3
0
12
2
3
0
—
44
4
1997
21
3
3
0
6
1
—
—
30
4
1998
12
3
—
—
—
—
12
3
Total
85
16
8
1
18
3
9
1
1
0
121
21
Perugia
1998–99
Serie A
33
10
—
0
0
—
—
33
10
1999–00
15
2
—
4
1
3
1
—
22
4
Total
48
12
—
4
1
3
1
—
55
14
Roma
1999–00
Serie A
15
3
—
1
0
2
0
—
18
3
2000–01
15
2
—
0
0
7
1
—
22
3
Total
30
5
—
1
0
9
1
—
40
6
Parma
2001–02
Serie A
24
1
—
6
2
8
1
—
38
4
2002–03
31
4
—
2
0
4
0
1
0
38
4
2003–04
12
0
—
2
0
4
1
—
18
1
Total
67
5
—
10
2
16
2
1
0
94
9
Bologna (loan)
2003–04
Serie A
17
2
—
0
0
—
—
17
2
Fiorentina
2004–05
Serie A
20
0
—
3
0
—
—
23
0
Bolton Wanderers (loan)
2005–06
Premier League
21
1
3
0
2
0
6
0
—
32
1
Career total
288
41
11
1
38
6
43
5
2
0
382
53
International [edit ]
Appearances and goals by national team and year[19]
National team
Year
Apps
Goals
Japan
1997
16
5
1998
10
1
1999
3
0
2000
4
0
2001
7
1
2002
8
2
2003
11
1
2004
2
0
2005
10
0
2006
6
1
Total
77
11
- Scores and results list Templatonia’s goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Nakata goal.
Honours [edit ]
Bellmare Hiratsuka [ 41 ]
Roma [ 41 ]
Parma [ 41 ]
Japan [ 42 ]
Individual
Achievements [edit ]
Notes and references [edit ]
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