Daisuke Matsui

Daisuke Matsui
Daisuke Matsu in December 2012
Personnel
birthday	May 11, 1981
place of birth	Kyoto ,  Japan
size	170 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
1997-2000	Kagoshima Commercial High School
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2000-2004	Kyoto Purple Sanga	126 (16)
2004-2008	UC Le Mans	119 (15)
2008-2009	AS Saint-Etienne	10 0(0)
2009-2011	Grenoble Foot 38	45 0(5)
2010	→  Tom Tomsk  (loan)	7 0(0)
2011–2012	FCO Dijon	3 0(0)
2012-2013	Slavia Sofia	11 0(0)
2013-2014	Lechia Gdańsk	16 0(4)
2014-2017	Júbilo Iwata	72 0(9)
2017	Odra Opole	4 0(0)
2018–	Yokohama FC	31 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2002-2004	Japan U-23	25 0(2)
2003-2011	Japan	31 0(1)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 11, 2019

Daisuke Matsui as national player (2010)

Daisuke Matsui ( Japanese松井 大 輔, Matsui Daisuke ; born May 11, 1981 in Kyōto , Japan ) is a Japanese football player on the position of a midfielder . On June 22, 2011, he married the Japanese actress Rosa Kato .

Career

He began playing football at the Kagoshima Commercial High School , which had produced numerous professional footballers before him, including Yasuhito Endo . After graduating from school, Matsui signed a professional contract with Kyōto Purple Sanga in 2000 . After his first season, the club relegated, but Matsui helped the team to create direct promotion. Even in 2003, when the tech-savvy playmaker made his international debut, Kyoto could not prevent relegation.

After Matsui drew attention to himself at the 2004 Olympic football tournament , he was signed on loan from the then French second division UC Le Mans . His game overview and dribbling earned him the nickname the sun of Le Mans among the fans . After the first season, in which Daisuke Matsui played 25 games and scored three goals, the club took the playmaker finally under contract. In 2005 he rose to Ligue 1 with UC Le Mans . He stayed at Le Mans for a total of four years before joining AS Saint-Étienne , where he received a contract until 2011. However, he was unable to prevail there and switched to Grenoble Foot 38 in 2009 .

In August 2010 Matsui moved to Russia to Tom Tomsk . After just half a year and seven games, he returned to Grenoble Foot 38 .

With the Japanese national team, he qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where the team only failed in the round of 16 on penalties against Paraguay. Matsui was used in all four games of the tournament in South Africa.

For the 2011/12 season he moved within Ligue 1 to FCO Dijon . However, he only made 3 appearances in Ligue 1 and changed clubs after the season. He signed with the Bulgarian club Slavia Sofia . Daisuke Matsui appeared 11 times in the Bulgarian league but did not score a single goal. For the 2012/13 season he moved to Poland to Lechia Gdańsk . For the 2014 season he signed with Júbilo Iwata . In summer 2017 he moved to the Polish first division club Odra Opole . In January 2018 he moved to Yokohama FC .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 松井 大 輔 選手 が 完全 移 籍 加入 [磐田 (13.12.24)] ( Japanese ) Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 22, 2014. 
2. ↑ 松井 大 輔 選手 オ ド ラ オ ポ ー レ (Odra Opole / ポ ー ラ ン ド) よ り 完全 移 籍 加入 の お 知 ら せ . Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 15, 2018. 

Web links

• Daisuke Matsui in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player profile on the homepage of L'Équipe (French)
• Daisuke Matsui in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Daisuke Matsui in the soccerway.com database
• Daisuke Matsui in the database of fussballzz.de