Takeshi Okada

Takeshi Okada
Personal information
Full name	Takeshi Okada
Date of birth	(1956-08-25) August 25, 1956
Place of birth	Osaka, Japan
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Defender
Youth career
1972–1974	Tennoji High School
1976–1979	Waseda University
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1980–1990	Furukawa Electric	189	(9)
National team
1980–1985	Japan	24	(1)
Teams managed
1997–1998	Japan
1999–2001	Consadole Sapporo
2003–2006	Yokohama F. Marinos
2007–2010	Japan
2012–2013	Hangzhou Greentown
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Takeshi Okada (岡田武史, Okada Takeshi, born 25 August 1956 in Osaka, Japan) is a former football player that was head coach of the Japanese national football team between 2007 and 2010.

International career

Okada played 24 games and scored one goal for the Japan national football team between 1980 and 1985.

Coaching career

He coached Japan at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, later Consadole Sapporo (1999–2001) and Yokohama F Marinos (2003–2006).

Okada was named Japan's head coach in December 2007 to replace Ivica Osim, who suffered a stroke. He was succeeded in 2010 by Alberto Zaccheroni.

Okada gained worldwide attention for leading Japan to ninth-place finish in the FIFA World Cup 2010. He was commended for turning his Japanese team of young, inexperienced unknowns into a slick passing, talented squad of youngsters.^[1]

He signed a contract with Chinese Super League side Hangzhou Greentown on 14 December 2011.^[2] He extended his contract for two years in the end of 2012 season. However, he resigned from Hangzhou on 5 November 2013.^[3]

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
1980	Furukawa Electric	JSL Division 1	14	0					14	0
1981			17	0					17	0
1982			18	0					18	0
1983			15	1					15	1
1984			17	0					17	0
1985			22	4					22	4
1986–87			21	1					21	1
1987–88			22	1					22	1
1988–89			21	1					21	1
1989–90			22	1			2	0	24	1
Country	Japan		189	9	0	0	2	0	191	10
Total			189	9	0	0	2	0	191	10

Japan national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1980	3	0
1981	5	0
1982	2	1
1983	7	0
1984	4	0
1985	3	0
Total	24	1

Honors

As player

Team

Japan Soccer League Championship : 1986
Asian Club Championship : 1986

Football Player and Manager

Individual

Japan Soccer League Best Eleven: 1985-86
J. League Manager of the Year : 2003, 2004
AFC Coach of the Year : 2010

Team

J. League Champions : 2003, 2004

References

(Japanese) Biography

↑ BBC world cup report, summary on Japan's performance
↑ 冈田武史正式成为杭州绿城主帅(Chinese)
↑ 杭州绿城官方宣布冈田武史明年不再担任球队主帅 (Chinese)

J. League Manager of the Year

1993: Matsuki 1994: Matsuki 1995: Wenger 1996: Nicanor 1997: João Carlos 1998: Ardiles 1999: Perryman 2000: Nishino 2001: Suzuki 2002: Suzuki 2003: Okada 2004: Okada 2005: Nishino 2006: Buchwald 2007: Oliveira 2008: Oliveira 2009: Oliveira 2010: Stojković 2011: Nelsinho 2012: Moriyasu 2013: Moriyasu 2014: Hasegawa 2015: Moriyasu

AFC Coach of the Year

1994: Polcheewin 1995: Park Jong-hwan 1996: Ma Yuanan 1997: Cha Bum-kun 1998: Kuwahara 1999: Rakhimov 2000: Troussier 2001: Al-Johar 2002: Hiddink 2003: Cha Kyung-bok 2004: Hamad 2006: Choe Kwang-sok 2007: Inileev 2008: Nishino 2009: Huh Jung-moo 2010: Okada 2011: Sasaki 2012: Kim Ho-gon 2013: Choi Yong-soo 2014: Popovic 2015: Postecoglou

Japan Squad

Japan squad – 1998 FIFA World Cup

1 Kojima 2 Narahashi 3 Soma 4 Ihara (c) 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 – 2010 FIFA World Cup

1 Narazaki 2 Abe 3 Komano 4 Túlio 5 Nagatomo 6 Uchida 7 Endo 8 Matsui 9 Okazaki 10 S. Nakamura 11 Tamada 12 Yano 13 Iwamasa 14 K. Nakamura 15 Konno 16 Ōkubo 17 Hasebe (c) 18 Honda 19 Morimoto 20 Inamoto 21 Kawashima 22 Nakazawa 23 Kawaguchi Coach: Okada

Japan national football team – managers

Sasaki (1921)
Nishida (1923)
Yamada (1925)
Suzuki (1930)
Takenokoshi (1934)
Suzuki (1936)
Takenokoshi (1938–40)
Kudo (1942)
Ninomiya (1951)
Takenokoshi (1951–56)
Takahashi (1957)
Kawamoto (1958)
Takenokoshi (1958–59)
Takahashi (1960–62)
Naganuma (1962–69)
Okano (1970–71)
Naganuma (1972–76)
Ninomiya (1976–78)
Shimomura (1979–80)
Watanabe (1980)
Kawabuchi (1980–81)
Mori (1981–85)
Ishii (1986–87)
Yokoyama (1988–91)
Ooft (1992–93)
Falcão (1994)
Kamo (1994–97)
Okada (1997–98)
Troussier (1998–02)
Zico (2002–06)
Osim (2006–07)
Okada (2007–10)
Zaccheroni (2010–14)
Aguirre (2014–15)
Halilhodžić (2015–)

Consadole Sapporo – managers

Takahashi (1996) Fernández (1997–98) Ishii (1998) Okada (1999–01) Hashiratani (2002) Ivančević (2002) Chang (2002) João Carlos (2003) Chang (2003) Yanagishita (2004–06) Miura (2007–08) Ishizaki (2009–12) Zaizen (2013–14) Barbarić (2014–15) Yomoda (ja) (2015–)

Yokohama F. Marinos – managers

Shimizu (1992–94) Solari (1995) Hayano (1995–96) Azkargorta (1997–98) De la Cruz (1999) Ardiles (2000–01) Shimojo (2001) Lazaroni (2001–02) Shimojo (2002) Okada (2003–06) Mizunuma (2006) Hayano (2007) Kuwahara (2008) Kokichi Kimura (2008–09) Kazushi Kimura (2010–11) Higuchi (2012–14) Mombaerts (2015–)

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