Naohiro Takahara
Naohiro Takahara | ||
Takahara before a substitution (2006)
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Personnel | ||
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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 | (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 | (4)
2011–2012 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 46 | (9)
2013-2015 | Tokyo Verdy | 41 (11) |
2015 | SC Sagamihara | 43 | (8)
2016– | Okinawa SV | |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
Japan U-20 | 16 (16) | |
Japan U-23 | 11 | (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
- 2007 Asian Championship top scorer
- 2002 J. League: Footballer of the Year
- 2002 J. League: Top scorer
- 2002 J. League: Best Eleven
- 2000 Asian Championship Best Eleven
- 1999 Asian Football Association Best youth player of the year
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
- Naohiro Takahara in the database of weltfussball.de
- Naohiro Takahara in the J.League Data Site database (Japanese)
- Interview with Takahara
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.transfermarkt.de
- ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost: HSV "Big in Japan" again: Gotoku Sakai: Door opener for the Asian market? , accessed on August 21, 2015.
personal data | |
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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 |