Kazuaki Tasaka
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Kazuaki Tasaka | ||
Date of birth | August 3, 1971 | ||
Place of birth | Hiroshima, Japan | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1990–1993 | Tokai University | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1994–1998 | Bellmare Hiratsuka | 176 | (3) |
1999 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 13 | (2) |
2000–2002 | Cerezo Osaka | 76 | (4) |
Total | 265 | (9) | |
International career | |||
1995–1999 | Japan | 7 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2011–2015 | Oita Trinita | ||
2015 | Shimizu S-Pulse | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Kazuaki Tasaka (田坂 和昭, Tasaka Kazuaki, born August 3, 1971) is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a defensive midfielder.
Career
He was capped 7 times for the Japanese national team between 1995 and 1999. His first international appearance came on May 28, 1995 in a friendly against Ecuador at National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.
He was educated at and played for Tokai University Daiichi High School and Tokai University. After graduating, he joined newly promoted J1 League side Bellmare Hiratsuka. He was immediately installed as a regular and received the J1 League Young Player of the Year award that year. Due to club's financial problem, he was released along with Nobuyuki Kojima, Wagner Lopes, Hong Myung-bo and Yoshihiro Natsuka at the end of the 1998 season. He moved to Shimizu S-Pulse (1999) and then to Cerezo Osaka (2000–2002) where he finished his playing career.[1]
He worked as a coach at Cerezo's youth setup from 2003. He was promoted to an assistant coach of the club's top team in the middle of the 2004 season and helped them to stay up at J1 League. He was offered a contract extension but he declined it to prepare for acquiring the S-Class Coaching License, a prerequisite to manage a J.League club, and study coaching skills abroad. He attained the S-Class License in 2005. He became a coach at Shimizu S-Pulse's satellite team in 2006, and was promoted to an assistant coach of club's top team in 2007.
Club statistics
Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Total | ||||||
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Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
Japan | League | Emperor's Cup | J.League Cup | Total | ||||||
1994 | Bellmare Hiratsuka | J1 League | 35 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 41 | 1 |
1995 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | 47 | 1 | |||
1996 | 30 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 48 | 0 | ||
1997 | 31 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 2 | ||
1998 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 0 | ||
1999 | Shimizu S-Pulse | J1 League | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 |
2000 | Cerezo Osaka | 30 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 37 | 1 | |
2001 | 29 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 1 | ||
2002 | J2 League | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | 18 | 2 | ||
Country | Japan | 265 | 9 | 21 | 1 | 32 | 0 | 318 | 10 | |
Total | 265 | 9 | 21 | 1 | 32 | 0 | 318 | 10 |
National team statistics
Japan national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
1995 | 4 | 0 |
1996 | 0 | 0 |
1997 | 0 | 0 |
1998 | 0 | 0 |
1999 | 3 | 0 |
Total | 7 | 0 |
Managerial statistics
Team | From | To | Record | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | |||
Oita Trinita | 2011 | 2015 | 172 | 54 | 47 | 71 | 31.40 |
Shimizu S-Pulse | 2015 | 2015 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8.33 |
Total | 184 | 55 | 51 | 78 | 29.89 |
Honors and awards
Individual honors
- J. League Rookie of the Year - 1994
References
- ^ "Stats Centre: Kazuaki Tasaka Facts". Guardian.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
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External links
- Kazuaki Tasaka at National-Football-Teams.com
- Kazuaki Tasaka at the Japan National Football Team
- Player statistics at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
- Manager statistics at J.League Template:Ja
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Tokai University alumni
- Association football people from Hiroshima Prefecture
- Japanese footballers
- Japan international footballers
- J1 League players
- J2 League players
- Shonan Bellmare players
- Shimizu S-Pulse players
- Cerezo Osaka players
- 1999 Copa América players
- Japanese football managers
- J1 League managers
- J2 League managers
- J3 League managers
- Oita Trinita managers
- Shimizu S-Pulse managers
- Fukushima United FC managers
- Association football midfielders