Keiji Tamada

Keiji Tamada
Keiji Tamada escaping a defender (right)
Personal information
Full name Keiji Tamada[1]
Date of birth (1980-04-11) 11 April 1980
Place of birth Urayasu, Chiba, Japan
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Nagoya Grampus
Number 28
Youth career
1996–1998 Narashino High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2005 Kashiwa Reysol 109 (30)
2006–2014 Nagoya Grampus 233 (66)
2015–2016 Cerezo Osaka 59 (13)
2017– Nagoya Grampus 28 (6)
National team
2004–2010[2] Japan 72 (16)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 December 2017
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Keiji Tamada (玉田 圭司, Tamada Keiji, born 11 April 1980 in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese football player, who currently plays for Nagoya Grampus.

Career

Club career

Tamada joined Kashiwa Reysol from Narashino High School in 1999. His debut was the game against Avispa Fukuoka on 13 March 1999. Kashiwa Reysol won the J. League Cup tile that year. He was not a key player from the start. His prominence grew gradually, especially in the latter half of the 2002 season. He was selected to the Japan national team in 2004. He transferred to Nagoya Grampus taking the opportunity of Kashiwa Reysol's relegation to J2 in 2006.[3] He took an active part in the 2008 season and Nagoya participated in the AFC Champions League for the first time. He enumerated two goals in AFC Champions League 2009 for Nagoya Grampus and contributed to the team's semifinal advancement. Nagoya Grampus won the J. League Championship in 2010. He will be playing for Cerezo Osaka this 2015 season.

On 29 December 2016, Tamada re-joined Nagoya Grampus,[4] signing another one-year contract with Nagoya Grampus on 20 December 2017.[5]

National Team career

Tamada made his field debut as a member of the Japan national team against Singapore in 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on 31 March 2004.[2] He scored 3 goals in the 2004 AFC Asian Cup, and this contributed to the Japan national team's top place finish. He was a member of the Japanese team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[2] He scored a goal against Brazil in the first round of that World Cup.[2] He scored 2 goals in 2010 World Cup qualifying matches helping Japan reach the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He participated in 2 games at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.[2]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 3 December 2017.[6][7]
Club Season League Emperor's Cup J. League Cup AFC Other1 Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Kashiwa Reysol 1999 J1 League 500010--60
2000 500010--60
2001 201000--30
2002 1331020--163
2003 28112150--3512
2004 28101000-203110
2005 2860000--286
Total 109305190-2012531
Nagoya Grampus 2006 J1 League 2662010--296
2007 1452042--207
2008 3141020--344
2009 278411092-4111
2010 29132110--3214
2011 331430-30104014
2012 25531-72-358
2013 3191062--3811
2014 1722241--245
Total 233662051951941029180
Cerezo Osaka 2015 J2 League 331000213110
2016 2432100243
Total 571321216115
Nagoya Grampus 2017 J2 League 2861020316
Career total 40611528728519470488131

1Includes J. League Promotion/Relegation Series and Japanese Super Cup.

International

[8]

As of 29 June 2010

Honors

Teams

Kashiwa Reysol
Nagoya Grampus
Japan National Team

Individual

References

  1. "FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 4 June 2010. p. 16. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "TAMADA Keiji". Japan National Football Team Database. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014.
  3. "Japan striker Tamada joins Nagoya". The Japan Times. 20 January 2006. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  4. "玉田 圭司選手、移籍加入のお知らせ". nagoya-grampus.jp (in Japanese). Nagoya Grampus. 29 December 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  5. "2018シーズン契約更新選手のお知らせ(1)". nagoya-grampus.jp (in Japanese). Nagoya Grampus. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  6. 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. 155 out of 289)
  7. Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 2014 (NSK MOOK)", 14 February 2014, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411109 (p. 93 out of 290)
  8. "Tamada, Keiji". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
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