Tadaaki Hirakawa

Tadaaki Hirakawa
平川忠亮
Personal information
Full name	Tadaaki Hirakawa
Date of birth	1 May 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth	Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender, Midfielder
Youth career
1995–1997	Shimizu Commercial High School
1998–2001	University of Tsukuba
Senior career*
Years	Team
2002–2018	Urawa Red Diamonds
Total
Medal record
Urawa Reds
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tadaaki Hirakawa (平川忠亮, Hirakawa Tadaaki, born 1 May 1979) is a former Japanese football player.^[1]

Playing career

Hirakawa was born in Shizuoka on 1 May 1979. After graduating from University of Tsukuba, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds in 2002. Although he is originally a right side player, he became a regular player as left side midfielder from July. Reds won the champions in 2003 J.League Cup first time in the club history. In 2004, Reds gained Alessandro Santos and Hirakawa lost his position as left side midfielder. So, Hirakawa played many positions, stopper of three backs, right side midfielder in 2004 season.^{[citation needed]}

However his opportunity to play decreased summer 2004. In 2006, he became a regular player as right side midfielder and Reds won the champions J1 League first time in the club history. In 2007, although he could hardly play in the match behind Nobuhisa Yamada until summer, he became a regular player as left side midfielder as Santos successor and Reds won the champions in 2007 AFC Champions League. In 2008, he played many matches as right and left side midfielder. Although he could not play many matches for injury in 2009, he played as regular player as right and left side back of four backs from 2010. From 2012, he played many matches as right side midfielder.^{[citation needed]}

However he could hardly play in the match behind young player Takahiro Sekine from 2015. He retired end of 2018 season.^[2]

Club statistics

^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Club	Season	League		Emperor's Cup		J.League Cup		AFC		Other^*		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Urawa Red Diamonds	2002	22	0	0	0	7	0	-		-		29	0
	2003	30	1	1	0	9	0	-		-		40	1
	2004	22	1	4	0	9	0	-		2	0	37	1
	2005	26	2	0	0	10	0	-		-		36	2
	2006	28	1	4	0	8	1	-		-		40	2
	2007	19	0	0	0	1	0	10	0	2	0	32	0
	2008	31	1	2	0	2	0	4	0	-		39	1
	2009	11	0	1	0	2	0	-		-		14	0
	2010	26	0	3	0	3	0	-		-		32	0
	2011	24	1	3	0	2	0	-		-		29	1
	2012	31	1	3	0	1	0	-		-		35	1
	2013	27	0	0	0	5	0	5	0	-		37	0
	2014	25	1	0	0	4	0	-		-		29	1
	2015	8	0	1	0	2	0	4	0	2	0	17	0
	2016	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
	2017	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
	2018	3	0	0	0	0	0	-		-		3	0
Career total		336	9	23	0	67	1	24	0	6	0	456	10