Hisanori Takada

I'll be honest — Hisanori Takada wasn't a name I could have rattled off before looking him up, and I think that might actually be the most telling thing about him. A footballer from Kyoto who lived the quiet, grinding life of the professional game, born in 1981 and gone in March 2022 at just 40 years old, before he even hit his next birthday. That stopped me cold. Forty is nothing. Kyoto, of all places — a city of temples and history — producing a guy who chose to chase a ball for a living feels like its own kind of interesting contrast. Not every player becomes famous, but every one of them burns through real years, real effort, real sweat on real pitches. Whatever he gave to the game, it was his whole shot. That deserves acknowledgment, even from a stranger who only learned his name after he was already gone.

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Hisanori Takada was a Japanese soccer player born on May 30, 1981, in Kyoto Prefecture. He passed away on March 17, 2022, at the age of 40. Details of his career, club affiliations, and personal life are largely not on public record.

Name (English)

Hisanori Takada

Name (Japanese)

高田寿典

Reading

たかだ ひさのり

Born

May 30, 1981 – March 17, 2022

Origin

Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Height

185 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Rooster

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E7%94%B0%E5%AF%BF%E5%85%B8
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5772327

Tags

• From Kyoto Prefecture
• Soccer player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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