Daisuke Matsui

Daisuke Matsui (Japanese松井 大 辅, Daisuke Matsui, born 11 May 1981 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese football player who plays for Jubilo Iwata of Japan.

Career

He began playing football at the Kagoshima Commercial High School, the. Before him numerous professional football players, including Yasuhito Endō had produced After finishing school, Matsui signed in 2000 a professional contract with Kyoto Purple Sanga. After his first season the club got off, but Matsui helped the team to create the direct resurgence. In 2003, as the tech-savvy playmaker celebrated his international debut, Kyoto could not prevent relegation.

After Matsui had drawn attention to himself at the Olympic football tournament in 2004, he was hired on loan from former French second division club Le Mans UC. His game overview and dribbling skills earned him the nickname the fans, the sun of Le Mans. After the first season in which Daisuke Matsui played 25 games, scoring three goals, the club took over the playmaker finally under contract. In 2005 he went with UC Le Mans in Ligue 1. He remained four years at Le Mans before the AS Saint- Étienne joined and there was a contract until 2011. There, however, he could not assert himself and changed in 2009 to Grenoble Foot 38

In August 2010, Matsui moved to Russia Tom Tomsk. After only half a year and seven games, he returned to Grenoble Foot 38

With the Japanese national team, he qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, where the team failed in the second round on penalties to Paraguay. Matsui was used at the tournament in South Africa in all four games.

For the 2011/12 season he moved within the Ligue 1 Dijon FCO to. However, he came up with only three appearances in Ligue 1 and moved after the season the club. He signed with the Bulgarian club Slawia Sofia. In the Bulgarian League Daisuke Matsui came 11 times used, but scored a single goal. For the season 2012/13 he moved to Poland Lechia Gdańsk. For the 2014 season he signed for Jubilo Iwata.