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Hidetoshi Nakata

1977 - Today

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Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI (中田 英寿, Nakata Hidetoshi, born 22 January 1977) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Considered one of the best talents to come from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) country in the early late 1990s and early 2000s, Nakata became the first ever AFC player to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or; he also hold the record for most goals scored by an AFC player in the Serie A. He is widely considered to be one of the best Asian players of all time. Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997 and 1998, the Scudetto with Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three World Cup tournaments (1998, 2002 and 2006) and competed in the Olympics twice (1996 and 2000). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hidetoshi Nakata has received more than 1,924,249 page views. His biography is available in 70 different languages on Wikipedia. Hidetoshi Nakata is the 424th most popular soccer player (up from 515th in 2019), the 476th most popular biography from Japan (up from 550th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

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  • 70

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  • 7.47

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  • 3.93

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 424 out of 16,880Before him are Gianpiero Combi, Máté Fenyvesi, Rajko Mitić, Tsukasa Hosaka, Hiroshi Kanazawa, and Hiroto Muraoka. After him are Gennaro Gattuso, Ricardo Quaresma, Masahiro Hamazaki, Víctor Valdés, Pablo Dorado, and Yukio Tsuda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 20Before him are Michael Fassbender, David Trezeguet, Jessica Chastain, Deco, Tarja Turunen, and Chris Martin. After him are Kanye West, Chad Hurley, Sarah Wayne Callies, Natalia Oreiro, Brittany Murphy, and Antonio Di Natale.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 476 out of 6,048Before him are Eisai (1141), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Saichō (767), Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), and Hiroto Muraoka (1931). After him are Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masahiro Hamazaki (1940), Taira no Masakado (903), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Akira Yoshino (1948), and Kentaro Miura (1966).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 56Before him are Yanosuke Watanabe (null), Ken Noritake (1922), Junji Kawano (1945), Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Hiroshi Kanazawa (1950), and Hiroto Muraoka (1931). After him are Masahiro Hamazaki (1940), Yukio Tsuda (1917), Tokizo Ichihashi (1909), Masanori Tokita (1925), Hisao Kami (1941), and Hifuyo Uchida (null).

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