Nakata hidetoshi biography samples

Japanese footballer (born 1977)

The native form of this personal name is Nakata Hidetoshi. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI (中田 英寿, Nakata Hidetoshi, born 22 January 1977) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Considered one of the best talents to come from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) country in the early late 1990s and early 2000s,^[3] Nakata became the first ever AFC player to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or.

Nakata began his professional career in 1995 and won the Asian Football Confederation Player of the Year award in 1997 and 1998, the Scudetto with Roma in 2001, played for Japan in three World Cup tournaments (1998, 2002 and 2006) and competed in the Olympics twice (1996 and 2000).^[4] In 2005, he was made the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, one of Italy's highest honors, for improving the country's