Full name Yuichiro Nagai Years Team Weight 75 kg Name Yuichiro Nagai | Playing position Role Football player Current team Thespakusatsu Gunma Height 1.84 m | |
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Date of birth (1979-02-14) 14 February 1979 (age 36) Similar People Nobuhisa Yamada, Tatsuya Tanaka, Ryota Tsuzuki, Keita Suzuki, Yutaka Tahara | ||
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Yuichiro Nagai (永井 雄一郎, Nagai Yūichirō, born 14 February 1979 in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese football (soccer) player. He is a forward and currently plays for J. League Division 2 side Thespakusatsu Gunma.
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- Club
- International
- Club team career statistics
- National team career statistics
- Individual
- Team
- References
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Club
He played his youth football at Mitsubishi Yowa Club. After graduating from high school in 1997, he joined Urawa. He made his professional debut on 12 April of that year in the opening league match against Yokohama Marinos at Urawa Komaba Stadium.
Nagai was loaned out to German second division Bundesliga side Karlsruher SC from 1998 to 1999. He played 21 league games and scored four goals.
In 2003, he took over the number nine jersey from iconic Masahiro Fukuda after the latter retired from the game. He scored a hat trick against Tokyo Verdy 1969 on 21 August 2004. In the same match, his teammate Koji Yamase also scored three goals. On 1 January 2007, he was instrumental in Urawa defending the Emperor's Cup by scoring a late winner assisted by Masayuki Okano.
In AFC Champions League 2007, he helped Urawa win the tournament scoring 3 goals. He was named the player of the tournament.
On 7 January 2009, he transferred to Shimizu S-Pulse.
International
He was a member of the Japan team for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship hosted by Malaysia. He scored a goal against Costa Rica at the group stage. The team was eliminated at the quarterfinal. He also represented Japan at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship hosted by Nigeria. He scored a goal in the semi-final against Uruguay and contributed to the team finishing runners-up in the competition.
He made his full international debut for Japan on 21 April 2003 in a friendly against South Korea at Seoul World Cup Stadium. His first international goal was the winner in the same match. He is so far capped four times and scored one goal.
Club team career statistics
Updated to 23 February 2016.
National team career statistics
Last update: 31 December 2008