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Tadanari Lee
Hangul	이충성
Hanja	李忠成
Revised Romanization	I Chung-seong
McCune–Reischauer	Yi Ch'ungsŏng
	Japanese name:; Ri Tadanari (李忠成)

Tadanari Lee
Personal information
Full name	Tadanari Lee
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Southampton
Number	19
Youth career
	Komine FC
1998–2000	Yokogawa Musashino F.C. Junior Youth
2001–2003	F.C. Tokyo U-18
Senior career*
Years	Team
2004	F.C. Tokyo
2005–2009	Kashiwa Reysol
2009–2012	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
2012–	Southampton
International career‡
2004	South Korea U-20
2007–2008	Japan U-23
2011–	Japan
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:01, 25 January 2012 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 June 2011

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Tadanari Lee (李忠成, Ri Tadanari, born 19 December 1985) is a Japanese football player of Korean descent who plays for Southampton FC in the Football League Championship.

Career

Lee was born to third generation Zainichi Korean parents in Tanashi (present: Nishitokyo), Tokyo. His Korean name is Lee Chung-Sung (Korean: 이충성, Hanja: 李忠成) and also had used pass name Tadanari Ōyama (大山忠成, Ōyama Tadanari).^[1] His father was also a footballer, who played for Yokohama Tristar FC in the Japan Soccer League.

Lee started playing football at Komine FC and later moved to Yokogawa Musashino F.C.. In 2001 he joined FC Tokyo youth team and took second places at All Japan Club Youth Soccer tournament, Prince Takamado Cup and J. League Youth tournament. He briefly joined training squads for the South Korea U-19 and U-20 teams but not played at official games. He experienced severe discrimination from Korean teammates referring to him as a “half-Japanese” with strong racial undertones.^[2]

He was promoted to FC Tokyo in 2004 and moved to Kashiwa Reysol in 2005 and later joined Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 2009.^[3]

Lee competed for Japan at the 2008 Summer Olympics finals.^[4] After becoming a regular starter for Sanfrecce and finishing the 2010 season strongly, Lee was rewarded with a call-up to Japan's Asian Cup squad and made his full international debut on January 9, 2011 against Jordan.^[5] His first international goal was dramatic, coming as it did in the 109th minute of the final to secure a 1-0 win over Australia and Japan's fourth Asian Cup success.^[6]

It was confirmed on the club's official website that Lee was in talks with English club Southampton on 4 January 2012. ^[7]

On 11 January 2012, it was confirmed that Lee had secured a work permit to allow him to play for Southampton, who confirmed the free transfer on 25 January 2012.^[8] ^[9]^[10]

Career statistics

As of January 29, 2011

Template:Football player statistics 1 Template:Football player statistics 2 |- |2004||F.C. Tokyo||rowspan="2"|J. League Division 1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||0||0 |- |2005||rowspan="5"|Kashiwa Reysol||8||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0||colspan="2"|-||11||0 |- |2006||J. League Division 2||31||8||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||31||8 |- |2007||rowspan="6"|J. League Division 1||30||10||1||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||36||10 |- |2008||19||4||4||1||4||0||colspan="2"|-||27||5 |- |rowspan="2"|2009||20||2||colspan="2"|-||5||3||colspan="2"|-||25||5 |- |rowspan="3"|Sanfrecce Hiroshima||8||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||10||0 |- |2010||30||11||2||0||3||2||6||3||41||16 |- |2011||32||15||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||33||15 Template:Football player statistics 5178||50||11||1||21||5||6||3||214||59 Template:Football player statistics end

Template:Football player national team statistics |- |2011||10||2 |- !Total||10||2 |}

International career statistics

Appearances in major competitions

Team	Competition	Category	Appearances		Goals	Team Record
Team	Competition	Category	Start	Sub	Goals	Team Record
Japan	2008 Summer Olympics qualification	U-22	7	2	4	Qualified
Japan	2008 Summer Olympics	U-23	1	2	0	Round 1
Japan	2011 AFC Asian Cup	Senior	0	2	1	Champion

Goals for senior national team

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	29 January 2011	Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar	Australia	0–1	0–1	2011 AFC Asian Cup Final
2.	7 October 2011	Kobe Wing Stadium, Kobe, Japan	Vietnam	0–1	0–1	International Friendly

Awards and honours

Japan

AFC Asian Cup: 1

2011

References

^ 五輪ピッチに「新日本人」…在日のルーツと誇り胸に
^ "Lee wants a crack at Korea in AFC Asian Cup Qatar". JoongAng Ilbo. January 10, 2011.
^ "BRIEF-Soccer-Japan under-23 striker Lee joins Hiroshima". Reuters. 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
^ "Tadanari Ri Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
^ "Zaccheroni names Asian Cup squad". FIFA.com. Retrieved 2010-12-24.
^ "Australia 0 - 1 Japan". ESPN Soccernet. 2011-01-29. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
^ "Japanese Star In Talks with Southampton". Saints FC. 2012-01-04. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
^ http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9465770.Tadanari_Lee_secures_work_permit/
^ http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2573772,00.html
^ http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2588592,00.html

External links

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[1] 五輪ピッチに「新日本人」…在日のルーツと誇り胸に

[2] "Lee wants a crack at Korea in AFC Asian Cup Qatar". JoongAng Ilbo. January 10, 2011.

[Lee-3] "BRIEF-Soccer-Japan under-23 striker Lee joins Hiroshima". Reuters. 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2009-08-26.

[4] "Tadanari Ri Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Retrieved 2009-08-26.

[5] "Zaccheroni names Asian Cup squad". FIFA.com. Retrieved 2010-12-24.

[6] "Australia 0 - 1 Japan". ESPN Soccernet. 2011-01-29. Retrieved 2011-02-02.

[7] "Japanese Star In Talks with Southampton". Saints FC. 2012-01-04. Retrieved 2011-01-04.

[8] ttp://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9465770.Tadanari_Lee_secures_work_permit/

[9] ttp://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2573772,00.html

[10] ttp://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2588592,00.html

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 Lee was born to third generation [[Zainichi Korean]] parents in Tanashi (present: Nishitokyo), Tokyo. His Korean name is '''Lee Chung-Sung''' ([[Korean language|Korean]]: 이충성, [[Hanja]]: 李 忠成) and also had used [[pass name]] {{nihongo|'''Tadanari Ōyama'''|大山 忠成| Ōyama Tadanari|}}.<ref>[http://sankei.jp.msn.com/beijing2008/news/080807/gab0808072123025-n1.htm/ 五輪ピッチに「新日本人」…在日のルーツと誇り胸に]</ref> His father was also a footballer, who played for [[Yokohama Flügels|Yokohama Tristar FC]] in the [[Japan Soccer League]].
-Lee started playing football at Komine FC and later moved to [[Yokogawa Musashino F.C.]]. In 2001 he joined [[FC Tokyo]] youth team and took second places at All Japan Club Youth Soccer tournament, Prince Takamado Cup and J. League Youth tournament. He briefly joined training squads for the South Korea U-19 and U-20 teams >
+Lee started playing football at Komine FC and later moved to [[Yokogawa Musashino F.C.]]. In 2001 he joined [[FC Tokyo]] youth team and took second places at All Japan Club Youth Soccer tournament, Prince Takamado Cup and J. League Youth tournament. He briefly joined training squads for the South Korea U-19 and U-20 teams but not played at official games. He experienced severe discrimination from Korean teammates referring to him as a [[Jjokbari|“half-Japanese”]] with strong racial undertones.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2930706 |title= Lee wants a crack at Korea in AFC Asian Cup Qatar |publisher= JoongAng Ilbo |date= January 10, 2011}}</ref>
 He was promoted to FC Tokyo in 2004 and moved to [[Kashiwa Reysol]] in 2005 and later joined [[Sanfrecce Hiroshima]] in 2009.<ref name="Lee">{{cite web|publisher=[[Reuters]]|title=BRIEF-Soccer-Japan under-23 striker Lee joins Hiroshima|url=http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-japankorean_brief&prov=reuters&type=lgns|date=2009-08-26|accessdate=2009-08-26}}</ref>