Yutaka Akita

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Personal information
Yutaka Akita
Date of birth	August 6, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Height	180cm
Nickname	Yutaka Akita
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Kyoto Sanga F.C. (Japan)
Youth clubs
1986-1988 1989-1992	Aichi High School (Japan) Aichi Gakuin University (Japan)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1993-2003 2004-2006 2007-	Kashima Antlers (Japan) Nagoya Grampus Eight (Japan) Kyoto Sanga F.C. (Japan)	334 (20) 57 (3)
National team²
1995-2003	Japan	45 (4)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 January 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of 29 January 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Yutaka Akita (秋田豊 Akita Yutaka; born 6 August 1970 in Nagoya, Aichi) is a Japanese soccer player who was on the Japanese national football team at the 1998 Football World Cup in France and the 2002 Football World Cup in South Korea/Japan.

Akita is a strong and physical centre-back, who is also arguably one of the best headers of the ball within the J-League. One of the best defenders of his generation and a 10-year stalwart for the Kashima Antlers since 1993, Akita left Kashima in early 2004 to move back to his native Nagoya, signing for hometown team Nagoya Grampus Eight, where his years of experience will be valued by Grampus's defence.

1 National team
2 Honors and awards
- 2.1 Individual Honors
- 2.2 Team Honors
3 External link

[edit] National team

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] Individual Honors

J-League Best Eleven: 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001

[edit] Team Honors

[edit] External link

National Football Teams

	Japan squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Kojima \| 2 Narahashi \| 3 Soma \| 4 Ihara \| 5 Omura \| 6 Yamaguchi \| 7 Ito \| 8 Nakata \| 9 Nakayama \| 10 Nanami \| 11 Ono \| 12 Lopes \| 13 Hattori \| 14 Okano \| 15 Morishima \| 16 Saito \| 17 Akita \| 18 Jo \| 19 Nakanishi \| 20 Kawaguchi \| 21 Narazaki \| 22 Hirano \| Coach: Okada

	Japan squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Kawaguchi \| 2 Akita \| 3 Matsuda \| 4 Morioka \| 5 Inamoto \| 6 Hattori \| 7 H. Nakata \| 8 Morishima \| 9 Nishizawa \| 10 Nakayama \| 11 Suzuki \| 12 Narazaki \| 13 Yanagisawa \| 14 Santos \| 15 Fukunishi \| 16 K. Nakata \| 17 Miyamoto \| 18 Ono \| 19 Ogasawara \| 20 Myojin \| 21 Toda \| 22 Ichikawa \| 23 Sogahata \| Coach: Troussier