Kazuaki Tasaka

Kazuaki Tasaka
田坂 和昭
Personal information
Full name Kazuaki Tasaka
Date of birth (1971-08-03) August 3, 1971
Place of birth Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
1990–1993 Tokai University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1998 Bellmare Hiratsuka 176 (3)
1999 Shimizu S-Pulse 13 (2)
2000–2002 Cerezo Osaka 76 (4)
National team
1995–1999 Japan 7 (0)
Teams managed
2011–2015 Oita Trinita
2015 Shimizu S-Pulse
2017– Fukushima United FC
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Kazuaki Tasaka (田坂 和昭, Tasaka Kazuaki, born August 3, 1971) is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

Club career

Tasaka was born in Hiroshima on August 3, 1971. He was educated at and played for Tokai University Daiichi High School and Tokai University. After graduating, he joined newly promoted J1 League side Bellmare Hiratsuka. He was immediately installed as a regular and received the J1 League Young Player of the Year award that year. Due to club's financial problem, he was released along with Nobuyuki Kojima, Wagner Lopes, Hong Myung-bo and Yoshihiro Natsuka at the end of the 1998 season. He moved to Shimizu S-Pulse (1999) and then to Cerezo Osaka (2000–2002) where he finished his playing career.[1]

National team career

Tasaka was capped 7 times for the Japanese national team between 1995 and 1999.[2] His first international appearance came on May 28, 1995 in a friendly against Ecuador at Tokyo National Stadium. In March 1999, he was elected Japan for the first time in 4 years by Philippe Troussier. He also played at 1999 Copa América.

Coaching career

Tasaka worked as a coach at Cerezo Osaka's youth setup from 2003. He was promoted to an assistant coach of the club's top team in the middle of the 2004 season and helped them to stay up at J1 League. He was offered a contract extension but he declined it to prepare for acquiring the S-Class Coaching License, a prerequisite to manage a J.League club, and study coaching skills abroad. He attained the S-Class License in 2005. He became a coach at Shimizu S-Pulse's satellite team in 2006, and was promoted to an assistant coach of club's top team in 2007. In 2011, he moved to Oita Trinita. In 2015, the club performance is bad and he was sacked in June. In July, he returned to Shimizu S-Pulse and became a manager as Katsumi Oenoki successor in August. He resigned end of 2015 season. He moved to Matsumoto Yamaga FC and became a coach. In 2017, he moved to Fukushima United FC and became a manager.

Club statistics

Club performance League Cup League Cup Total
Season Club League AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Japan League Emperor's Cup J.League Cup Total
1994Bellmare HiratsukaJ1 League3505110411
199547100-471
199630030150480
19973123050392
19983302030380
1999Shimizu S-PulseJ1 League1320020152
2000Cerezo Osaka3013040371
20012914020351
2002J2 League17210-182
CountryJapan 265921132031810
Total 265921132031810

National team statistics

[2]

Japan national team
YearAppsGoals
199540
199600
199700
199800
199930
Total70

Managerial statistics

Updated to 23 February 2017.[3][4]

Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Oita Trinita 2011 2015 172 54 47 71 031.40
Shimizu S-Pulse 2015 2015 12 1 4 7 008.33
Total 184 55 51 78 029.89

Honors and awards

Individual honors

References

  1. ↑ "Stats Centre: Kazuaki Tasaka Facts". Guardian.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
  2. 1 2 Japan National Football Team Database
  3. ↑ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2017 J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 (NSK MOOK)", 8 February 2017, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411420 (p. 266 out of 289)
  4. ↑ J.League Data Site(in Japanese)
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