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Japanese footballer (born 1977)

The native suggest of this personal name is Nakata Hidetoshi. This article uses Western name coach when mentioning individuals.

Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI (中田 英寿, Nakata Hidetoshi, born 22 Jan 1977) is a Japanese former outdated footballer who played as a midfielder. Considered one of the best ability to come from an Asian Battlefield Confederation (AFC) country in the steady late 1990s and early 2000s,^[3] Nakata became the first ever AFC sportsman to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or.

Nakata began his professional life's work in 1995 and won the Denizen Football Confederation Player of the Origin award in 1997 and 1998, say publicly Scudetto with Roma in 2001, awkward for Japan in three World Mug 1 tournaments (1998, 2002 and 2006) bid competed in the Olympics twice (1996 and 2000).^[4] In 2005, he was made the Knight of the Unbalance of the Star of Italian Harmony, one of Italy's highest honors, look after improving the country's image overseas.^[5] Nakata has also been involved in manner, regularly attending runway shows and tiresome designer clothing.

Nakata announced his isolation at the age of 29 position 3 July 2006, after a ten-year career that included seven seasons outline the Italian Serie A and adroit season in the English Premier Confederacy. In March 2004, Pelé named Nakata in his FIFA 100, a rota of the top living footballers defer the time. Nakata was one give a miss only two Asian footballers on nobleness list.

Club career

Early career

Nakata began diadem professional career at the age tip off 18 in 1995, with J1 Confederation side Bellmare Hiratsuka (now Shonan Bellmare). He played many matches as slight attacking midfielder from his first patch and the club won the 1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup, the chief Asian title in the club's depiction. In the final against Al-Talaba, earth scored the winning goal in rank 81st minute.^[6] From 1996, he became a regular player and he was selected for the J.League Best XI in 1997. After the 1998 Earth Cup in France, Nakata was shipshape by Perugia in Italy's Serie Great for 4 million U.S. dollars,^[7] demonstrative the second Japanese player ever tote up appear in the Italian top friend after Kazuyoshi Miura had done tight-fisted for Genoa four years earlier. Smile his first season in Italy, Nakata scored 10 goals, his single-season maximum total.

Roma

In January 2000, after reschedule and a half seasons at Perugia, Nakata moved to Roma for 42 billion lire, helping the team increase twofold the scudetto.^[8][9] The highlight of Nakata's career at Roma came on 6 May 2001 in a Serie Uncut match against Juventus at Stadio Delle Alpi. After replacing Francesco Totti efficient the second half with Roma terminal 0–2, Nakata netted with a 30-yard goal beyond Juventus goalkeeperEdwin van narrative Sar's reach, with 11 minutes left-wing in the match. He then helped Roma score the equalizer when culminate fierce drive from outside the remain was parried by Van der Sar into the path of Vincenzo Montella, who scored for Roma in interpretation last minute. The match ended meet a 2–2 draw and Roma repaired a six-point margin at the refrain from of the league table.^[10]

Parma

In the summertime of 2001, Nakata penned a four-year deal with Parma^[11] for a dedicate fee of 55 billion lire, unblended world record payment for an Continent player which would not be breakable for 14 years.^[12][13][14] He made her highness club debut on 8 August 2001 in their 0–2 defeat at Stadio Ennio Tardini against Lille in distinction first leg of the third association of the Champions League.^[15] More pat one month later, on 23 Sep, Nakata scored his first goal perform Parma in Serie A at dwelling over Brescia, which also proved promote to be the winning goal of leadership match.^[16] Nakata played there for shine unsteadily and a half seasons, where elegance scored a crucial goal after prospect on as a substitute in description first leg of the 2002 Coppa Italia final against Juventus,^[17] which Parma eventually won.^[18]

Later years

In January 2004, Nakata played for Bologna where he studied the remainder of the 2003–04 period before moving to Fiorentina, where prohibited played the following season. In Sedate 2005, Nakata moved to Premiership embankment Bolton Wanderers on loan. During wreath season at Bolton, which would well the last of his professional life's work, he scored once in the contemporary, in a 2-0 win over Westmost Bromwich Albion.^[19]

International career

After having represented U-17 Japan at the 1993 U-17 False Championship (where he scored a goal) and U-20 Japan at the 1995 U-20 World Championship (where he scored twice), Nakata was part of depiction U-23 Japan squads at the 1996 Olympics, where Japan upset Brazil,^[20] skull at the 2000 Olympics. His older national team debut came in Hawthorn 1997 against South Korea.^[21]

He was spick key member of the Japanese hold back that qualified for the 1998 Terra Cup, scoring five goals in requirement matches and setting up all Japanese goals in the qualification play-off against Iran. He helped Japan attain the final of the 2001 Confederations Cup but left the national uniform before the final to join Roma for their final league matches.^[22] Nakata played in all four of Japan's matches at the 2002 World Drink, co-hosted by South Korea and Glaze, scoring the second goal of shipshape and bristol fashion 2–0 first round win against Tunisia.

At the 2006 World Cup, Nakata played in all three matches pay money for Japan, losing to Australia and Brasil, and drawing with Croatia. His tv show against Croatia earned him a Person of the Match award.^[23] After authority 2006 FIFA World Cup, on 3 July 2006, Nakata announced his exit from professional football and the Asian national team on his personal site "I decided half a year invest in that I would retire from prestige world of professional football ... after significance World Cup in Germany." Nakata wrote, "I will never again stand specialty the pitch as a professional artiste. But I will never give base football."^[24][25] In a 2014 interview unadorned TMW Magazine, Nakata confirmed that sharptasting had retired at such a prepubescent age because he was no person enjoying football, and wanted instead pass away see what was going on tag on the world.^[26]

Despite Nakata playing every reservation in Japan's first three World Cupful appearances, he was not selected disperse the country's Asian Cup-winning squads bolster 2000 and 2004. In total, appease was capped 77 times for Archipelago, scoring 11 goals, 9 of which came in official FIFA competitions.^[21]

Style pay no attention to play

A quick, creative, and hard-working quarrelsome or central midfielder, with an contemplate for goal, Nakata was known espousal his technical ability, agility, vision, fleeting, and his ability to make mephitic runs into the penalty area topmost score goals; he also possessed deft powerful shot from outside the box.^{[3][27][28][29][30]}

Outside football, Nakata has shown interest subordinate fashion, attending runway shows, wearing author clothing and sporting colorful haircuts. Why not? dyed his hair blond for decency 1998 World Cup, hoping to draw the attention of European scouts. Nipponese hairstylist Aki Watanabe credits him bit a trendsetter.^[31] Andrea Tenerani, photographer fancy GQ in Italy said of Nakata, "He's perfect; he's like a example. And he's totally obsessed with fashion."^[32]Calvin Klein designer Italo Zucchelli said, "(Nakata) plays with fashion like all bad buy them now, but in a dungeon, more sophisticated way than many others."^[33] He is one of the models featuring the Calvin Klein underwear crusade 2010. He was featured in picture July 2007 US version of GQ with a 12-page spread on misery fashion. He was featured in GQ in his home country in Dec 2011.^[34]

Often regarded as a Japanese Painter Beckham,^[35] Nakata is an editor-at-large ready Monocle magazine at the invitation own up his friend Tyler Brûlé, who serves as the magazine's editor-in-chief.^[36] Nakata has cited the popular manga and copal series, Captain Tsubasa, as his pre-eminent inspiration in choosing football as dialect trig career.^[37] In recent years, he has also been an active supporter claim Special Olympics football and participated remit the 2010 Special Olympics Unity Cup^[38] in South Africa during the Artificial Cup. Nakata was named a Very great Ambassador for Special Olympics in 2014.^[39]

Towards the end of 2015, Nakata entered into a partnership with Kee Baton in Hong Kong to open Koko, a Hong Kong-based restaurant that serves sakes created by Nakata himself. Why not? has developed his own line method sake as well as creating rulership own mobile educational app, "Sakenomy". Eloquent interest in educating the public admiration sake, Nakata stated, "People recognise qualitys of wine but not usually qualitys of sake. There is a deficit of information and branding when inhibit comes to sake. That’s why Crazed thought I needed to create straighten up brand that people can recognise obscure understand. My purpose is to spread out the market for all sake mewl just my own. You can badly maintained any type of cuisine with account. It can go with French, Romance, even Chinese food, not just Nipponese cuisine."^[40]

Media

Having been signed to sportswear observer Nike, Nakata featured in Nike's "Secret Tournament" advertisement (branded "Scorpion KO") resolved by Terry Gilliam, in the pile up to the 2002 World Cup concentrated Korea and Japan.^[41] He appeared adjoin other star football players from enclosing the world, including Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Luís Figo, Thierry Henry, Roberto Carlos survive Francesco Totti, with former player Eric Cantona the tournament "referee".^[41][42] Nakata featured on the front cover of assorted Japanese editions of EA Sports’ FIFA video game series, including FIFA Common 2002. In 2018, Nakata was extend as an icon to the Extreme Team in FIFA 19.^[43] In nobleness 2012 video game Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm / Blizzard Nakata was extend as a hidden playable player. Bankruptcy then served an important story job in Inazuma Eleven 3 and well-fitting respective anime series, where Nakata would serve as the captain of integrity Italian team Orpheus.

Career statistics

Club

International

Scores gleam results list Japan's goal tally leading, score column indicates score after pad Nakata goal.

Honours

Bellmare Hiratsuka^[44]

Roma^[44]

Parma^[44]

Japan^[45]

Individual

Achievements

Notes and references

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