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Full name
  
Daisuke Ichikawa

Name
  
Daisuke Ichikawa

Position
  
1997–2010
  
Weight
  
74 kg

Years
  
Team

Height
  
1.81 m

Playing position
  
Defender

Role
  
Football player


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Date of birth
  
(1980-05-14) May 14, 1980 (age 35)

Place of birth
  
Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan

Similar People
  
Teruyoshi Ito, Ryuzo Morioka, Takuya Yamada

2007 J-League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup Shimizu vs Yokohama (2/2)


Daisuke Ichikawa (市川 大祐, Ichikawa Daisuke, born May 14, 1980) is a former Japanese football player. He last played for Vanraure Hachinohe and he was also capped for Japan national team.

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2007 J-League 05 Shimizu vs Oita (1/3)


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)

National team statistics

  • 2002 FIFA World Cup
  • References

    Daisuke Ichikawa Wikipedia