Daisuke Ichikawa

Daisuke Ichikawa (市 川 大佑Japanese, Daisuke Ichikawa, born May 14, 1980 in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese football player. It usually comes as a full-back or in midfield for use.

Ichikawa played since 1996 in the youth team of the J- League club Shimizu S-Pulse, where he is under contract today. Even at the high school times, he then made his debut as a professional in the J-League in the Game against Consadole Sapporo, on the 21st of March 1998. His first goal he scored then on 14 November of the same year against JEF Ichihara.

Already on 1 April 1998, he then gave his debut in the national team in the match against South Korea. He was at that time 17 years and 322 days, the youngest player in the National Japanese football history. He was not appointed to the squad for the World Cup 1998.

As a result, but Ichikawa celebrated some success with his club Shimizu. 1999, the Second Stage of the season was won, in 2000 the Asian Cup Winners' Cup and 2001 the Emperor's Cup. With these successes he made with the later exchanged by Urawa Alex a dreaded among the opponents wingers.

He was also recalled to the national team by new coach Philippe Troussier and was part of the squad at the 2002 World Cup in their own country. There he prepared after coming off the bench in the match against Tunisia with an edge, the pre-decisive 2-0 Hidetoshi Nakata before, which meant the knockout phase.

In the coming years, but he was thrown back by injuries, which he was no longer considered for the national team and also in the club came to only a few uses. However, Ichikawa fought in the 2005 season back in the starting eleven of Shimizu.

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• Position: Defender, Midfielder
• Height: 181 cm
• 69 kg
• Shirt number: 25
• Strong Foot: right

• National football team (Japan)
• Japanese
• Born in 1980
• Man