is a former

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ese

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player. She played for Japan national team.

Club career

Takahashi was born in

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...

on April 11, 1976. After graduating from high school, she joined

Nikko Securities Dream Ladies was a women's football team which played in Division 1 of Japan's Nadeshiko League The , commonly known as the , is a women's association football league in Japan. The Nadeshiko League consists of two divisions that correspond to the seco ...

in 1995. The club won L.League championship for 3 years in a row (

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

). However, the club was disbanded in 1998 due to financial strain. She moved to

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in 1999. The club was disbanded, so she moved to Urawa Reinas FC (later ''Urawa Reds'') in 2000. She was selected Best Eleven in

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. She retired end of 2009 season.Urawa Reds
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National team career

On March 29, 2005, when Takahashi was 28 years old, she debuted for Japan national team against

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. She played 2 games for Japan in 2005.Japan Football Association
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National team statistics

References

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