Nobuhisa Yamada

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

Biography
Yamada was born in Fujieda on September 10, 1975. After graduating from Fujieda Higashi High School, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds in 1994. He became a regular player from 1995. Although he mainly played as a right-side defender or midfielder, he also played many position, center back, defensive midfielder and attacking midfielder. He played more than 500 league matches for Urawa and also served captain from 2004 to 2008. The club won the champions 2006 J1 League, 2003 J.League Cup, 2005 and 2006 Emperor's Cup. In Asia, the club won the champions 2007 AFC Champions League and the 3rd place 2007 Club World Cup. He retired end of the 2013 season.

Yamada was a member of the Japan U-20 national team for the 1995 World Youth Championship. He played all 4 matches as right midfielder and scored a goal against Burundi. On November 20, 2002, he debuted for the Japan national team against Argentina. In 2003, he played most matches as right side-back including 2003 Confederations Cup. He played 15 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 2004.

Statistics

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|1994||rowspan="20"|Urawa Reds||rowspan="6"|J1 League||15||1||3||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||18||1
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|1995||42||1||3||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||45||1
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|1996||30||3||4||1||11||0||colspan="2"|-||45||4
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|1997||22||1||2||0||6||0||colspan="2"|-||30||1
|-
|1998||34||0||3||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||41||0
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|1999||29||1||2||1||4||1||colspan="2"|-||35||3
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|2000||J2 League||39||2||2||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||43||2
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|2001||rowspan="13"|J1 League||27||3||4||1||6||0||colspan="2"|-||37||4
|-
|2002||28||1||1||0||8||0||colspan="2"|-||37||1
|-
|2003||27||3||1||0||11||0||colspan="2"|-||39||3
|-
|2004||27||2||4||0||9||2||colspan="2"|-||40||4
|-
|2005||32||3||5||2||10||1||colspan="2"|-||47||6
|-
|2006||32||6||5||0||7||1||colspan="2"|-||44||7
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|2007||29||0||0||0||2||0||9||1||40||1
|-
|2008||28||0||2||0||6||0||4||0||40||0
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|2009||30||0||1||0||7||1||colspan="2"|-||38||1
|-
|2010||27||0||4||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||35||0
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|2011||24||0||4||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||32||0
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|2012||8||0||2||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||15||0
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|2013||10||0||1||0||3||0||1||0||15||0
540||27||53||5||109||6||14||1||716||39
540||27||53||5||109||6||14||1||716||39
|}
Japan National Football Team Database

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|2002||1||0
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|2003||11||0
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|2004||3||1
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!Total||15||1
|}

References

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Category:1975 births
Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from Shizuoka Prefecture
Category:Japan international footballers
Category:J1 League players
Category:J2 League players
Category:Urawa Red Diamonds players
Category:2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players