Daisuke Matsui

is a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

Biography
Matsui was born in Kyoto on May 11, 1981. After graduating from Kagoshima Jitsugyo High School, he joined J1 League club Kyoto Purple Sanga in 2000. He played many matches from first season. The club won the champions in the 2002 Emperor's Cup. In summer 2004, he moved to French Ligue 2 club Le Mans. The club won the 2nd place in the 2004/05 season and was promoted to Ligue 1. In 2008, he moved to Saint-Étienne. After that, he played Grenoble, Tom Tomsk, Dijon, Slavia Sofia and Lechia Gdańsk. In January 2014, he returned to Japan and joined Júbilo Iwata and played in 4 seasons. From summer 2017, he played Odra Opole, Yokohama FC and Saigon FC.

In June 2003, Matsui was selected the Japan national team for 2003 Confederations Cup. At this tournament, he debuted against Colombia on June 22. He was also selected Japan U-23 national team for 2004 Summer Olympics. From 2008, he played many matches under manager Takeshi Okada. In 2010, he was selected Japan for 2010 World Cup. He played all 4 matches and Japan qualified to the knockout stage. He also played at 2011 Asian Cup and Japan won the champions. This Asian Cup was his last game for Japan. He played 31 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 2011.

Statistics

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|2000||rowspan="5"|Kyoto Purple Sanga||J1 League||22||1||1||0||7||1||30||2
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|2001||J2 League||37||7||4||0||2||0||43||7
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|2002||rowspan="2"|J1 League||23||4||5||4||2||0||30||8
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|2003||27||2||1||0||2||0||30||2
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|2004||J2 League||18||2||0||0||colspan="2"|-||18||2

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|2004/05||rowspan="4"|Le Mans||Ligue 2||25||3||0||0||1||0||26||3
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|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Ligue 1||33||3||0||0||2||0||35||3
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|2006/07||27||4||0||0||2||0||29||4
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|2007/08||34||5||2||0||3||2||39||7
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|2008/09||Saint-Étienne||Ligue 1||22||1||2||0||1||0||25||1
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|2009/10||Grenoble||Ligue 1||29||4||2||1||1||0||32||5

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|2010||Tom Tomsk||Premier League||7||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0

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|2010/11||Grenoble||Ligue 2||16||1||0||0||colspan="2"|-||16||1
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|2011/12||Dijon||Ligue 1||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0

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|2012/13||Slavia Sofia||A Group||11||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||13||0

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|2013/14||Lechia Gdańsk||Ekstraklasa||16||4||2||0||colspan="2"|-||18||4

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|2014||rowspan="4"|Júbilo Iwata||rowspan="2"|J2 League||36||6||3||0||colspan="2"|-||39||6
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|2015||26||3||0||0||colspan="2"|-||26||3
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|2016||rowspan="2"|J1 League||16||0||3||0||3||1||22||1
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|2017||7||0||1||0||3||0||11||0

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|2017/18||Odra Opole||I liga||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0

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|2018||rowspan="3"|Yokohama FC||rowspan="2"|J2 League||9||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||11||0
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|2019||24||2||1||1||colspan="2"|-||25||3
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|2020||J1 League||3||0||colspan="2"|-||0||0||3||0

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|2021||Saigon FC||V.League 1||||||||||||||||
248||27||21||5||19||2||288||34
189||20||6||1||10||2||218||23
7||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||7||0
11||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||13||0
19||4||2||0||colspan="2"|-||21||4
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474||51||31||6||29||4||534||61
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Japan National Football Team Database

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|2003||1||0
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|2004||0||0
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|2005||3||1
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|2006||0||0
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|2007||2||0
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|2008||7||0
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|2009||8||0
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|2010||8||0
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|2011||2||0
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!Total||31||1
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References

Other websites

Category:1981 births
Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from Kyoto Prefecture
Category:Japan international footballers
Category:J1 League players
Category:J2 League players
Category:Kyoto Sanga FC players
Category:Júbilo Iwata players
Category:Yokohama FC players
Category:2010 FIFA World Cup players
Category:2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
Category:Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics