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Shunsuke Nakamura

Shunsuke Nakamura

Shunsuke Nakamura is a Japanese football (soccer) player who currently plays for Espanyol in the Spanish top flight. He is one of the most prominent and successful Asian players to have played in Europe and on 13 September 2006 became the first Japanese player to score in the UEFA Champions League and the second Asian player to do so. He is also well known for his free kick-taking abilities.

 
 
Hidetoshi Nakata

Hidetoshi Nakata

Hidetoshi Nakata, Cavaliere OSSI (中田 英寿 Nakata Hidetoshi; born January 22, 1977 in Yamanashi Prefecture), is a Japanese former football player. He was one of the most famous Asian footballers of his generation. Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997 and 1998, the Scudetto with A.S. Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three FIFA World Cup tournaments and played in the Olympics twice.

 
 
Naohiro Takahara

Naohiro Takahara

Naohiro Takahara (高原 直泰, Takahara Naohiro, born June 4, 1979) is a Japanese footballer. He currently plays for Urawa Red Diamonds as a striker Takahara was born in Mishima, Shizuoka. He has previously played for Júbilo Iwata in Japan, Boca Juniors in Argentina, Hamburger SV and Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany. On December 3, 2006, he scored his first hat-trick in the German Bundesliga in a league game against Alemannia Aachen.

 
 
Kazuyoshi Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura, often known simply as Kazu, is a Japanese football (soccer) striker. He has played for the Japanese national team and was the first Japanese recipient of the Asian Player of the Year award in 1993, an award presented annually by the Asian Football Confederation. He is currently with Yokohama FC in the J. League Division 2. Kazu, whose rise to fame in Japan coincided with the launch of the J. League in 1993, was arguably Japan's first superstar in football.

 
 
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Shinji Ono

Shinji Ono (小野 伸二, Ono Shinji, born on September 27, 1979) is a Japanese football player, who plays as a midfielder for VfL Bochum in Germany. Known as Tensai, Japanese for "Genius", from his youth days, Ono is one of the biggest stars in Asian football, known for his vision, technique and superb passing. Although his primary position is attacking midfielder, he can play anywhere in the midfield, including defensive midfield and either wing.

 
 
Junichi Inamoto

Junichi Inamoto

Junichi Inamoto (稲本 潤一, Inamoto Jun'ichi, born September 18, 1979) is a Japanese football player who plays in midfield for Rennes.