Hiroshi Kiyotake

Hiroshi Kiyotake belongs to a category of footballer the statistics always undersell. He is an attacking midfielder and winger, which means his job is to make other people's goals possible, and box scores are indifferent to that kind of labour. Born in Oita Prefecture in 1989 and listed at 172 cm, he was never going to survive in Europe on physique, so he survived on speed of decision instead — the pass chosen a half-second before anyone else saw it existed. He represented Japan at the 2012 Olympics, the tournament that introduced a whole cohort of Japanese players to European scouts, and he took that opening abroad. What I like most is where the story has landed. He now plays for Oita Trinita in the J2 League, back in the prefecture he came from, in the second tier rather than under stadium lights somewhere richer. Going home while you can still play is a choice, and usually a generous one.

Name (English)

Hiroshi Kiyotake

Name (Japanese)

清武弘嗣

Reading

きよたけ ひろし

Born

November 12, 1989 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Snake

Origin

Ōita Prefecture, Japan

Height

172 cm

Occupation

association football player

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi%20Kiyotake
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B8%85%E6%AD%A6%E5%BC%98%E5%97%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733494

Tags

• Ōita Prefecture
• association football player

Last updated

2026-08-07

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