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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. 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). In 2005, he was made the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, one of Italy's highest honors, for improving the country's image overseas. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hidetoshi Nakata is the 627th most popular soccer player (down from 483rd in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Japan (down from 471st in 2019) and the 150th most popular Japanese Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 627 out of 21,273. Before him are Philipp Lahm, Alisson, Javier Clemente, Michel Hidalgo, Yoshio Kikugawa, and Preben Elkjær. After him are Tofiq Bahramov, Víctor Valdés, Werner Leimgruber, Mark van Bommel, John Connelly, and Bernd Hölzenbein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 27. Before him are Tarja Turunen, Liv Tyler, Sarah Wayne Callies, Chadwick Boseman, Jessica Chastain, and Phil Neville. After him are Mark van Bommel, Gianluca Zambrotta, John Green, Mette Frederiksen, Brittany Murphy, and Luca Toni.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 574 out of 6,245. Before him are Tokutaro Ukon (1913), Yōsuke Matsuoka (1880), Yoshio Kikugawa (1944), Hitoshi Ashida (1887), Takeo Kurita (1889), and Katsuhiro Otomo (1954). After him are Yosano Akiko (1878), Ryutaro Hashimoto (1937), Hideyo Noguchi (1876), Saitō Makoto (1858), Rei Kawakubo (1942), and Masayoshi Ōhira (1910).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Japan

Among soccer players born in Japan, Hidetoshi Nakata ranks 150. Before him are Tomomi Seo (1950), Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Ryuzo Hiraki (1931), Ichiro Hosotani (1946), Tokutaro Ukon (1913), and Yoshio Kikugawa (1944). After him are Miho Kaneda (1950), Yuki Fushimi (1950), Hiroshi Katayama (1940), Shigeo Yaegashi (1933), Ken Naganuma (1930), and Takayuki Kuwata (1941).

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