Kenichi Shimokawa

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

Biography
Shimokawa was born in Gifu on May 14, 1970. After graduating from Gifu Technical High School, he joined Furukawa Electric (later JEF United Ichihara) in 1989. From first season, he played as regular goalkeeper over 10 seasons. In 2000, his opportunity to play decreased behind Ryo Kushino. He moved to Yokohama F. Marinos in 2001. However, there were few opportunities to play in the match. His only match in the J1 League at Yokohama F. Marinos is last game in 2003 season. In this match, he played instead Tetsuya Enomoto was shown a red card in the 15th minute.J.League Marinos won this match and won the J1 League champions in this season. He retired end of 2006 season.

On June 10, 1995, Shimokawa debuted for the Japan national team against Sweden. He played in all match at 1996 Asian Cup. He played 9 games for Japan until 1997.

Statistics

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|1989/90||rowspan="3"|Furukawa Electric||rowspan="3"|JSL Division 1||20||0||||||0||0||20||0
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|1990/91||21||0||||||0||0||21||0
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|1991/92||16||0||||||0||0||16||0
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|1992||rowspan="9"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="9"|J1 League||colspan="2"|-||0||0||5||0||5||0
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|1993||14||0||3||0||0||0||17||0
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|1994||43||0||2||0||2||0||47||0
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|1995||44||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||45||0
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|1996||30||0||1||0||14||0||45||0
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|1997||15||0||2||0||7||0||24||0
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|1998||32||0||0||0||4||0||36||0
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|1999||30||0||1||0||0||0||31||0
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|2000||13||0||0||0||2||0||15||0
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|2001||rowspan="6"|Yokohama F. Marinos||rowspan="6"|J1 League||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
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|2002||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
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|2003||1||0||1||0||0||0||2||0
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|2004||0||0||1||0||0||0||1||0
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|2005||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
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|2006||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0
277||0||12||0||34||0||323||0
277||0||12||0||34||0||323||0
|}
Japan National Football Team Database

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|1995||1||0
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|1996||7||0
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|1997||1||0
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!Total||9||0
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References

Other websites

Category:1970 births
Category:Living people
Category:Footballers from Gifu Prefecture
Category:Japan international footballers
Category:J1 League players
Category:Japan Soccer League players
Category:JEF United Chiba players
Category:Yokohama F. Marinos players
Category:1996 AFC Asian Cup players