Keisuke Tsuboi

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Keisuke Tsuboi
坪井 慶介
Personal information
Full name Keisuke Tsuboi[1]
Date of birth (1979-09-16) 16 September 1979 (age 46)
Place of birth Tama, Tokyo, Japan
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position Defender
Youth career
1995–1997 Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo High School
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1998–2001 Fukuoka University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2014 Urawa Red Diamonds 292 (1)
2015–2017 Shonan Bellmare 28 (0)
2018–2019 Renofa Yamaguchi 28 (0)
Total 348 (1)
International career
2003–2007 Japan 40 (0)
Medal record
Urawa Red Diamonds
Winner AFC Champions League 2007
Winner J1 League 2006
Runner-up J1 League 2004
Runner-up J1 League 2005
Runner-up J1 League 2007
Runner-up J1 League 2014
Winner J.League Cup 2003
Runner-up J.League Cup 2002
Runner-up J.League Cup 2004
Runner-up J.League Cup 2011
Runner-up J.League Cup 2013
Winner Emperor's Cup 2005
Winner Emperor's Cup 2006
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Keisuke Tsuboi (坪井 慶介, Tsuboi Keisuke; born 16 September 1979) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defender.[2]

Club career

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Tsuboi was educated at and played for Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo High School and Fukuoka University.

After graduating from the university in 2002, he joined Urawa Red Diamonds and immediately broke into the first team. His first appearance came on 3 March 2002 against Yokohama F. Marinos in opening game in 2002 season. He scored his first league goal on 17 May 2003 against Gamba Osaka. He won the Rookie of the Year award in 2002 and was selected as one of the J.League Best Eleven in 2003. In 2006, Reds won the champions in J1 League which is first J1 champions in the club history. In 2007, Reds won first Asian title AFC Champions League. Although he played many matches as regular center back until 2010, he could not play many matches from 2011.

In 2015, Tsuboi moved to Shonan Bellmare.[3] However he could not play many matches and Bellmare was relegated to J2 League end of 2016 season. In 2018, he moved to J2 club Renofa Yamaguchi FC.[4]

International career

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Tsuboi represented Japan for the 2001 Summer Universiade held in Beijing where the team won the title beating Ukraine in the final.

Japan's national coach Zico gave him the first cap in 2003 when he played Tsuboi on 11 June 2003 in a friendly against Paraguay at Saitama Stadium.[5] He was a member of the Japan team for 2006 FIFA World Cup where he played 2 games against Australia and Brazil.[5] In Japan's first match against Australia, he suffered from cramps in his both thighs and had to be replaced by Teruyuki Moniwa in the 56th minute.

He was also in the squad for 2007 Asian Cup but did not play any game in the tournament as Yuki Abe and Yuji Nakazawa were the first-choice centre backs.

On 8 February 2008, he announced retirement from international football.[6] He played 40 games for Japan until 2007.[5]

Away from football

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He joined SASUKE 38 at December 2020. He failed Stage 1 at Dragon Glider.

Career statistics

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Club

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Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[7][8]
Club Season League Emperor's Cup League Cup Champions League Other[a] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Fukuoka University 1999 – 3 0 – – – 3 0
Urawa Red Diamonds 2002 30 0 1 0 8 0 – – 39 0
2003 30 1 1 0 11 0 – – 42 1
2004 14 0 1 0 0 0 – – 15 0
2005 33 0 5 0 2 0 – – 40 0
2006 27 0 2 0 1 0 – 1 0 31 0
2007 31 0 1 0 0 0 12 0 4 0 48 0
2008 21 0 2 0 6 0 4 0 – 33 0
2009 29 0 1 0 7 0 – – 37 0
2010 31 0 4 0 3 0 – – 38 0
2011 5 0 3 0 2 0 – – 10 0
2012 33 0 1 0 1 0 – – 35 0
2013 7 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 – 12 0
2014 1 0 1 0 1 0 – – 3 0
Shonan Bellmare 2015 8 0 1 0 6 1 – – 15 1
2016 15 0 1 0 4 0 – – 20 0
2017 5 0 2 0 – – – 7 0
Renofa Yamaguchi 2018 23 0 1 0 – – – 24 0
2019 5 0 1 0 – – – 6 0
Career total 348 1 34 0 53 1 18 0 5 0 458 2
  1. ^ Includes Japanese Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

International

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Appearances and goals by national team and year[5]
National team Year Apps Goals
Japan 2003 11 0
2004 10 0
2005 7 0
2006 11 0
2007 1 0
Total 40 0

Honours

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Urawa Reds

Shonan Bellmare

Individual

References

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  2. ^ Keisuke Tsuboi at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  3. ^ Shonan Bellmare(in Japanese)
  4. ^ Renofa Yamaguchi FC(in Japanese)
  5. ^ a b c d Japan National Football Team Database
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  7. ^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (p. 231 out of 289)
  8. ^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑", 10 February 2016, Japan, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (p. 69 out of 289)
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