Takeshi Okada

Takeshi Okada
Personnel
Surname	Takeshi Okada
birthday	August 25, 1956
place of birth	Osaka ,  Japan
size	175 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
1980-1984	Tennoji High School
1984-1985	Waseda University
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1980-1990	Furukawa Electric	189 (9)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1980-1985	Japan	24 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1997-1998	Japan
1999-2001	Consadole Sapporo
2003-2006	Yokohama F. Marinos
2007-2010	Japan
2011–	Hangzhou Navel Greentown
1 Only league games are given.

Takeshi Okada ( Japanese 岡田 武 史 , Okada Takeshi ; born August 25, 1956 in Osaka ) is a former Japanese football player and current coach.

Player career

Takeshi Okada began playing football at the Tennōji High School of Osaka Prefecture ( Ōsaka-furitsu Tennōji kōtō-gakkō ) and was on the Waseda University team during his student days . After completing his studies, he joined the Furukawa Denki Kōgyō (English Furukawa Electric ) works team. With Furukawa Electric, Okada won the Japanese Championship and the Asian Cup of National Champions in 1986 . 1990 Takeshi Okada ended his active career with Furukawa after 189 league games in which he scored nine goals.

From 1980 to 1985 Okada played 24 games for the Japanese national soccer team .

Coaching career

Following his active career, Takeshi Okada went to Germany in 1992 to train as a coach. After his return, he initially worked at JEF United Ichihara Chiba , the successor club to Furukawa Electric, as an assistant coach, before becoming assistant coach of the Japanese national team in 1995 and replacing head coach Shū Kamo in 1997 . He qualified with Japan for the 1998 World Cup in France, where his team was eliminated without a win in the group with Argentina, Croatia and Jamaica.

After the World Cup, he took over Consadole Sapporo and led the team in 2000 in the J. League Division 1 , the top division of Japan. He celebrated his greatest successes as a coach with the Yokohama F. Marinos , whom he supervised from 2003 to 2006, and with whom he won the Japanese championship in 2003 and 2004.

When the previous national coach of Japan, Ivica Osim , had to give up his post due to a stroke in November 2007, Okada took over and led Japan to the 2010 World Cup . Two months after the World Cup, he resigned as a coach. On December 14, 2011 Okada signed a contract as a coach at the Chinese Super League club Hangzhou Nabel Greentown .

titles and achievements

as a player

• Japanese champion 1986
• 1986 Asian Cup winner of the national champions

as a trainer

• J. League Championship 2003 and 2004

Awards

• J. League Manager of the Year 2003 and 2004
• AFC Coach of the Year 2010

Web links

• Takeshi Okada in the database of weltfussball.de
• FIFA profile for the 2010 World Cup ( Memento from June 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football special edition WM 2010: Group E: Japan , p. 119
2. ↑ SOCCER / Okada close to joining Hangzhou Greentown ( Memento from February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )