is a Japanese former

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

player. He played for Japan national team. He was a forward and known as an opportunistic goal-scorer, making most of his quick thinking and canny positioning. He currently works at

Nippon Television JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as (NTV) or Nippon TV, is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned and operated by the , a sub ...

and belongs to an entertainment agency Horipro as a sportscaster.website by Horipro
Takeda is also an influential businessman and player agent in Japanese.

Club career

Takeda was educated at and played for Shimizu Higashi High School. He joined

Japan Soccer League ; JSL) was the top flight association football league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J.League. JSL Cup, JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professi ...

side Yomiuri in 1986. When Japan's first professional league

J1 League The , the J.League or the for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Japan and the highest level of the Japanese football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation ...

started in 1993, Yomiuri was transformed to Verdy Kawasaki for whom he continued to play. His partnership with Kazuyoshi Miura up front was one of the key elements that brought successes to the club in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was transferred to Júbilo Iwata for the 1996 season but came back to Verdy (1997), then moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga (July 1997-December 1997), JEF United Ichihara (1998–1999), again Verdy (2000), Paraguayan side Sportivo Luqueño (June 2000-December 2000), where he made two appearances for the club under coach Raul Vicente Amarilla, and finished his playing career at Verdy (2001).

National team career

Takeda played 18 times for the Japan national team between 1987 and 1994.Japan National Football Team Database
/ref> He made his international debut on April 8, 1987 in a 1988 Summer Olympics qualification against

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

at the

Tokyo National Stadium The Japan National Stadium, officially the , alternatively , and a.k.a. formerly is a multi-purpose stadium used mostly for association football in Kasumigaokamachi, Kasumigaoka, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The facility served as the main stadi ...

. He scored his sole international goal in the match. He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 Asian Cup but he did not play in the tournament. Under national coach Hans Ooft, Japan reached the 1994 World Cup qualification final stage for the 1994 World Cup. He was on the pitch, after replacing

Masashi Nakayama , nicknamed "Gon" during his playing career, is a Japanese professional football manager and former player. He was the J.League Most Valuable Player in 1998, J.League Top Scorer in 1998 and 2000, and J.League Best XI in 1997, 1998, 2000, 20 ...

in the 81st minute, when Japan's hope to play in the finals in the USA was dashed by an injury-time Iraqi equaliser in the last qualifier, the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.

Club statistics

National team statistics

Honors and awards

Team honors

* 1992 Asian Cup (Champions)

Video games

* '' Takeda Nobuhiro no Super Cup Soccer'' - Super Famicom videogame, released November 26, 1993 * ''Takeda Nobuhiro no Ace Striker'' - Game Boy videogame, released February 18, 1994 * ''Takeda Nobuhiro no Super League Soccer'' - Super Famicom videogame, released November 25, 1994

References

External links

* *
Japan National Football Team Database
* 1967 births Living people Japanese men's footballers Japan men's international footballers Japan Soccer League players J1 League players Tokyo Verdy players Júbilo Iwata players Kyoto Sanga FC players JEF United Chiba players Sportivo Luqueño players Japanese expatriate men's footballers Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay Footballers at the 1990 Asian Games 1992 AFC Asian Cup players AFC Asian Cup–winning players Men's association football forwards Asian Games competitors for Japan Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games Association football people from Hamamatsu 20th-century Japanese sportsmen {{Japan-footy-forward-stub