Naohiro Takahara

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Naohiro Takahara
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Takahara before a substitution (2006)
Personnel
Surname Naohiro Takahara
birthday 4th June 1979
place of birth Mishima ,  Japan
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1992-1994 Tokai dai-chi Junior High School
1995-1997 Shimizu high school
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2001 Júbilo Iwata 78 (32)
2001 →  Boca Juniors  (loan) 6 0(1)
2002 Júbilo Iwata 27 (26)
2003-2006 Hamburger SV 97 (13)
2006-2007 Eintracht Frankfurt 38 (12)
2008-2010 Urawa Red Diamonds 62 (10)
2010 Suwon Bluewings 12 0(4)
2011–2012 Shimizu S-Pulse 46 0(9)
2013-2015 Tokyo Verdy 41 (11)
2015 SC Sagamihara 43 0(8)
2016– Okinawa SV
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Japan U-20 16 (16)
Japan U-23 11 0(4)
2000-2008 Japan 57 (23)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: October 12, 2019

Naohiro Takahara ( Japanese高原 直 泰Takahara Naohiro ; born June 4, 1979 in Mishima ) is a Japanese football player on the position of the striker .

Career

Takahara started playing soccer at the age of six. As a teenager, he ran for Shimizu High School and Tōkai University . His first station in professional football was from 1998 to 2001 the Japanese first division team of Júbilo Iwata . In the 2001/02 season Takahara was loaned from his club to Boca Juniors in Argentina . Since one could no longer afford him there after financial difficulties (1 goal in 6 league games), Takahara returned to Jubilo Iwata in January 2002. After his return, Takahara played his most successful season 2001/02 for Jubilo Iwata when he scored 26 goals in 27 league games. With this achievement he was both top scorer in the J. League and Footballer of the Year in Japan. In the Japanese J. League, the striker scored 58 goals in a total of 105 appearances for Jubilo Iwata.

In January 2003, Takahara moved to Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga for a transfer fee of 200,000 euros . There Takahara scored 13 goals in 97 Bundesliga games. On May 14, 2006, Takahara moved to Eintracht Frankfurt for a transfer fee of 750,000 euros . There he signed a three-year contract.

In the 2006/07 Bundesliga season , Takahara played his best season in the Bundesliga. He scored 11 goals for Eintracht in 30 league games. During this season he managed his only hat trick in the Bundesliga in the game against Alemannia Aachen on matchday 15 . He also scored two goals in the last group match in the UEFA Cup against Fenerbahçe Istanbul . In the 2006/07 DFB Cup, Takahara scored four goals in four games. As in his time at Hamburger SV , Takahara became a crowd favorite at Eintracht Frankfurt .

After the disappointing course in the 2007/08 season (8 league games, 1 goal), Takahara moved to Urawa Red Diamonds in January 2008 for a transfer fee of 1.5 million euros , where he signed a contract until December 31, 2010.

In July 2010, Takahara moved to Suwon Bluewings in South Korea. But after only half a year he returned to Japan and switched to Shimizu S-Pulse .

In the national team of Japan Takahara made his debut on February 16, 2000 when playing against the national team Brunei . One of his strongest games was the encounter against the German national soccer team on May 30, 2006, in which he scored two goals.

In January 2013 Takahara moved to Tokyo Verdy , and since 2015 Takahara has been playing for SC Sagamihara .

In 2016, Takahara founded a new football club called Okinawa SV on the Okinawa archipelago with the aim of leading the club into the J-League in the long term . The club name is based on the HSV , where Takahara played from 2003 to 2006. The club started in the lowest division of the Japanese league system in 2016 and was first in the table with nine wins from nine games and a goal balance of 123: 1.

Awards

Achievements and titles

  • 2005 Winner of the UEFA Intertoto Cup (UI Cup) and entry into the UEFA Cup
  • 2004 Asian champion
  • 2003 winner of the German League Cup
  • 2002 J. League Championship
  • 2000 Asian champion
  • 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship Vice World Champion
  • 1999 J. League Championship
  • 1999 Asia Club Championship
  • 1998 J. League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
  • 1998 Asia Club Championship
  • 1994 U-16 Asian Championship

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.transfermarkt.de
  2. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost: HSV "Big in Japan" again: Gotoku Sakai: Door opener for the Asian market? , accessed on August 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Takahara, Naohiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 高原 直 泰 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Mishima , Japan