Daisuke Ichikawa

Daisuke Ichikawa

Personal information
Full name	Daisuke Ichikawa
Date of birth	(1980-05-14) May 14, 1980
Place of birth	Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Vanraure Hachinohe
Number	25
Youth career
1996–1997	Shimizu S-Pulse
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–2010	Shimizu S-Pulse	325	(12)
2011	Ventforet Kofu	22	(0)
2012	Mito HollyHock	32	(1)
2013–2014	Fujieda MYFC	14	(0)
2015	FC Imabari	1	(0)
2016–	Vanraure Hachinohe
Total		394	(13)
International career
1998–2002	Japan	10	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of December 31, 2015

Daisuke Ichikawa (市川 大祐, Ichikawa Daisuke, born May 14, 1980) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Vanraure Hachinohe He played for Japan national team.

Playing career

Ichikawa is a product of Shimizu's youth system. He made his J1 League debut on March 21, 1998 against Consadole Sapporo. He scored his first league goal against on November 14, 1998 against JEF United Ichihara. he was still a high school student at that time.

He was instrumental in Shimizu winning the second stage of J1 League in 1999, the Asian Cup Winners Cup in 2000 and the Emperor's Cup in 2001. The side attack from Ichikawa on the right and Alessandro dos Santos on the left was Shimizu's main weapon during the period.

National team career

He represented Japan at several underage levels. He made his first full international debut on April 1, 1998 against South Korea when he was 17 year and 322 days old, which made him the youngest player who represented Japan. Ichikawa was short-listed for the 1998 World Cup finals, but national coach Takeshi Okada dropped him together with Kazuyoshi Miura and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa at the final training camp in Nyon, Switzerland.

He was chosen for the 2002 World Cup finals by Philippe Troussier and played three games. Against Tunisia in the group stage, his cross was met by Hidetoshi Nakata who headed home to score Japan's second goal. He was capped 10 times without scoring between 1998 and 2002.

Club statistics

(Correct as of 6 December 2013)

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Japan			League		Emperor's Cup		J.League Cup		Asia		Total
1997	Shimizu S-Pulse	J1 League	0	0	1	0	0	0	-		1	0
1998			20	1	3	0	0	0	-		23	1
1999			22	0	3	1	4	0	-		29	1
2000			26	2	4	0	6	1	-		36	3
2001			30	2	1	0	2	0	-		33	2
2002			30	1	3	0	2	0	2	0	37	1
2003			23	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	27	0
2004			3	0	0	0	1	0	-		4	0
2005			34	0	3	1	5	0	-		42	1
2006			31	1	3	0	5	0	-		39	1
2007			33	4	3	1	6	1	-		42	6
2008			27	0	2	0	5	0	-		34	0
2009			25	1	5	0	5	0	-		35	1
2010			21	0	2	0	4	0	-		27	0
2011	Ventforet Kofu		22	0	0	0	1	0	-		23	0
2012	Mito HollyHock	J2 League	32	1	1	0	-				33	1
2013	Fujieda MYFC	Football League	8	0	1	0	-				9	0
Total			387	13	33	3	45	2	2	0	467	18

National team statistics

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Japan national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1998	1	0
1999	0	0
2000	0	0
2001	0	0
2002	9	0
Total	10	0

External links

• FIFA Statistics
• Daisuke Ichikawa at National-Football-Teams.com
• Japan National Football Team Database
• Player statistics at J.League Data Site Template:Ja