Kazuaki Tasaka

Kazuaki Tasaka

Personal information
Full name	Kazuaki Tasaka
Date of birth	August 3, 1971
Place of birth	Hiroshima, Japan
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Youth career
1987–1989	Tokai University Daiichi High School
1990–1993	Tokai University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1994–1998	Bellmare Hiratsuka	176	(3)
1999	Shimizu S-Pulse	13	(2)
2000–2002	Cerezo Osaka	76	(4)
National team
1995–1999	Japan	7	(0)
Teams managed
2004	Cerezo Osaka (assistant)
2006–2010	Shimizu S-Pulse (assistant)
2011–2015	Oita Trinita
2015	Shimizu S-Pulse (assistant)
2015	Shimizu S-Pulse
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Kazuaki Tasaka (田坂 和昭 Tasaka Kazuaki, born August 3, 1971 in Hiroshima City) is a retired Japanese international football player. He was a defensive midfielder.

Career

He was capped 7 times for the Japanese national team between 1995 and 1999. His first international appearance came on May 28, 1995 in a friendly against Ecuador at National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo.

He was educated at and played for Tokai University Daiichi High School and Tokai University. After graduating, he joined newly promoted J. League side Bellmare Hiratsuka. He was immediately installed as a regular and received the J. League Young Player of the Year award that year. Due to club's financial problem, he was released along with Nobuyuki Kojima, Wagner Lopes, Hong Myung-Bo and Yoshihiro Natsuka at the end of the 1998 season. He moved to Shimizu S-Pulse (1999) and then to Cerezo Osaka (2000–2002) where he finished his playing career.^[1]

He worked as a coach at Cerezo's youth setup from 2003. He was promoted to an assistant coach of the club's top team in the middle of the 2004 season and helped them to stay up at Division 1. He was offered a contract extension but he declined it to prepare for acquiring the S-Class Coaching License, a prerequisite to manage a J. League club, and study coaching skills abroad. He attained the S-Class License in 2005. He became a coach at Shimizu S-Pulse's satellite team in 2006, and was promoted to an assistant coach of club's top team in 2007.

Club career statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Japan			League		Emperor's Cup		J. League Cup		Total
1994	Bellmare Hiratsuka	J.League	35	0	5	1	1	0	41	1
1995			47	1	0	0	-		47	1
1996			30	0	3	0	15	0	48	0
1997			31	2	3	0	5	0	39	2
1998			33	0	2	0	3	0	38	0
1999	Shimizu S-Pulse	J.League 1	13	2	0	0	2	0	15	2
2000	Cerezo Osaka		30	1	3	0	4	0	37	1
2001			29	1	4	0	2	0	35	1
2002		J.League 2	17	2	1	0	-		18	2
Country	Japan		265	9	21	1	32	0	318	10
Total			265	9	21	1	32	0	318	10

International career statistics

^[2]

Japan national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1995	4	0
1996	0	0
1997	0	0
1998	0	0
1999	3	0
Total	7	0

Managerial statistics

As of 13 November 2014.

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	Win %
Oita Trinita	2010	Present	156	52	42	62	33.33
Total			156	52	42	62	33.33

Honors and awards

Individual honors

• J. League Rookie of the Year - 1994

References

1. "Stats Centre: Kazuaki Tasaka Facts". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
2. Kazuaki Tasaka at National-Football-Teams.com

• Kazuaki Tasaka at National-Football-Teams.com