Takumi Horiike

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Takumi Horiike
Full name	Takumi Horiike
Date of birth	September 6, 1965 (1965-09-06) (age 42)
Place of birth	Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
1981-1984 1984-1988	Shimizu Higashi High School Juntendo University
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1988-1992 1992-1998 1998-1999 1999	Yomiuri FC Shimizu S-Pulse Cerezo Osaka Shimizu S-Pulse	085 00(1) 180 00(3) 023 00(0) 000 00(0)
National team
1986-1995	Japan	058 00(2)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Takumi Horiike (堀池巧, Horiike Takumi^?, born September 6, 1965 in Shimizu, Shizuoka) is a former Japanese football (soccer) player. He was a defender.

1 Career
- 1.1 Club
- 1.2 International
2 Clubs
3 Honors and awards
- 3.1 Individual Honors
- 3.2 Team Honors

[edit] Career

[edit] Club

He was educated at and played for Shimizu Higashi High School. He won the national high school championship with his teammates including Katsumi Oenoki and Kenta Hasegawa. He continued his study and football at Juntendo University.

After graduating in 1988, he joined Japan Soccer League side Yomiuri Club (current Tokyo Verdy 1969). He was played as a defensive midfielder, then a centre back partnered with Hisashi Kato.

When Japan's first-ever professional league J. League started, Shimizu S-Pulse was founded in his local city. He joined the club in 1992 and re-united with his high school teammates Oenoki and Hasegawa. His position was a right full back. After the end of the inaugural season, he was chosen as a member of the 1993 J-League Team of the Year.

He was transferred to Cerezo Osaka in 1998 and came back to Shimizu briefly in 1999 before hanging up his boots.

[edit] International

He was capped 58 times and scored 2 goals for the Japanese national team between 1986 and 1995. He made his international debut on August 1, 1986 in a friendly against Malaysia while he was still a university student. He was mainly a right full back for the national team. He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 AFC Asian Cup and he played 4 matches in the competition. Under national coach Hans Ooft, Japan progressed to the final qualifying stage of the AFC for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Horiike was on the pitch when Japan's hope to play in the finals was dashed by an injury-time Iraqi equaliser in the last qualifier, the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.

He is currently working as a soccer commentator on television.