Keisuke Tsuboi

Keisuke Tsuboi
坪井慶介
Personal information
Full name	Keisuke Tsuboi[1]
Date of birth	16 September 1979
Place of birth	Tama, Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1995–1997	Yokkaichi Chuo; Technical High School
1998–2001	Fukuoka University
Senior career*
Years	Team
2002–2014	Urawa Red Diamonds
2015–2017	Shonan Bellmare
2018–2019	Renofa Yamaguchi
Total
International career
2003–2007	Japan
Medal record
Urawa Red Diamonds
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Keisuke Tsuboi (坪井慶介, Tsuboi Keisuke, born 16 September 1979) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defender.[2]

Club career

Tsuboi was educated at and played for Yokkaichi Chuo Technical High School and Fukuoka University.

After graduating from the university in 2002, he joined Urawa Red Diamonds and immediately broke into the first team. His first appearance came on 3 March 2002 against Yokohama F. Marinos in opening game in 2002 season. He scored his first league goal on 17 May 2003 against Gamba Osaka. He won the Rookie of the Year award in 2002 and was selected as one of the J.League Best Eleven in 2003. In 2006, Reds won the champions in J1 League which is first J1 champions in the club history. In 2007, Reds won first Asian title AFC Champions League. Although he played many matches as regular center back until 2010, he could not play many matches from 2011.

In 2015, Tsuboi moved to Shonan Bellmare.[3] However he could not play many matches and Bellmare was relegated to J2 League end of 2016 season. In 2018, he moved to J2 club Renofa Yamaguchi FC.[4]

International career

Tsuboi represented Japan for the 2001 Summer Universiade held in Beijing where the team won the title beating Ukraine in the final.

Japan's national coach Zico gave him the first cap in 2003 when he played Tsuboi on 11 June 2003 in a friendly against Paraguay at Saitama Stadium.[5] He was a member of the Japan team for 2006 FIFA World Cup where he played 2 games against Australia and Brazil.[5] In Japan's first match against Australia, he suffered from cramps in his both thighs and had to be replaced by Teruyuki Moniwa in the 56th minute.

He was also in the squad for 2007 Asian Cup but did not play any game in the tournament as Yuki Abe and Yuji Nakazawa were the first-choice centre backs.

On 8 February 2008, he announced retirement from international football.[6] He played 40 games for Japan until 2007.[5]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[7][8]
Club	Season	League		Emperor's Cup		League Cup		Champions League		Other[lower-alpha 1]		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Fukuoka University	1999	–		3	0	–		–		–		3	0
Urawa Red Diamonds	2002	30	0	1	0	8	0	–		–		39	0
	2003	30	1	1	0	11	0	–		–		42	1
	2004	14	0	1	0	0	0	–		–		15	0
	2005	33	0	5	0	2	0	–		–		40	0
	2006	27	0	2	0	1	0	–		1	0	31	0
	2007	31	0	1	0	0	0	12	0	4	0	48	0
	2008	21	0	2	0	6	0	4	0	–		33	0
	2009	29	0	1	0	7	0	–		–		37	0
	2010	31	0	4	0	3	0	–		–		38	0
	2011	5	0	3	0	2	0	–		–		10	0
	2012	33	0	1	0	1	0	–		–		35	0
	2013	7	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	–		12	0
	2014	1	0	1	0	1	0	–		–		3	0
Shonan Bellmare	2015	8	0	1	0	6	1	–		–		15	1
	2016	15	0	1	0	4	0	–		–		20	0
	2017	5	0	2	0	–		–		–		7	0
Renofa Yamaguchi	2018	23	0	1	0	–		–		–		24	0
Renofa Yamaguchi	2019	5	0	1	0	–		–		–		6	0
Career total		348	1	34	0	53	1	18	0	5	0	458	2

Includes Japanese Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[5]
National team	Year	Apps
Japan	2003	11
	2004	10
	2005	7
	2006	11
	2007	1
Total		40

Honours

Urawa Reds

Shonan Bellmare

J2 League: 2017

Individual

References

"2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Japan" (PDF). FIFA. 21 March 2014. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019.
Keisuke Tsuboi at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
Shonan Bellmare(in Japanese)
Renofa Yamaguchi FC(in Japanese)
Japan National Football Team Database
"Tsuboi offered something different in Japan's defence". A View From A Brit by Jeremy Walker. 11 February 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411529 (p. 231 out of 289)
Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑", 10 February 2016, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411338 (p. 69 out of 289)

External links

Keisuke Tsuboi – FIFA competition record (archived)
Keisuke Tsuboi at National-Football-Teams.com
Keisuke Tsuboi at Soccerway
Keisuke Tsuboi at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
Japan National Football Team Database
Profile at Renofa Yamaguchi FC (in Japanese)
Yahoo! Sports Profile Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)

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[9] Includes Japanese Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

[1] "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Japan" (PDF). FIFA. 21 March 2014. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019.

[2] Keisuke Tsuboi at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)

[3] Shonan Bellmare(in Japanese)

[4] Renofa Yamaguchi FC(in Japanese)

[nationalteam-5] Japan National Football Team Database

[6] "Tsuboi offered something different in Japan's defence". A View From A Brit by Jeremy Walker. 11 February 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2012.

[7] Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411529 (p. 231 out of 289)

[8] Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑", 10 February 2016, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411338 (p. 69 out of 289)