Kō Itakura

I've got a real soft spot for the quiet, brainy center-backs, and Kō Itakura is exactly that guy for me. He's the Yokohama kid who grew into a 188cm wall, and what I love is that he defends with his head before his legs. You won't catch him flinging himself into a crowd-pleasing slide tackle every five minutes. Instead he just stands in the right spot, reads where the pass is going, and snuffs out the danger before it even becomes danger. Battling big physical strikers over in Europe and anchoring Japan's back line, he never looks rattled. I'm a chatty type myself, so maybe that's why I admire a man who builds trust this calmly. Total respect.

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Kō Itakura is a Japanese professional soccer player born on January 27, 1997, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Standing 188 cm tall, he is known as a central defender who competes at the international level with the Japan national team. A centre-back and defensive midfielder, he plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach and captains the Japan national team. He has an official website and social media accounts.

Name (English)

Kō Itakura

Name (Japanese)

板倉滉

Reading

いたくら こう

Born

January 27, 1997 (age 29)

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

188 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Ox

• Official sitehttps://koitakura.jp/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kouitakura/
• Xhttps://x.com/kougogo1270
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BF%E5%80%89%E6%BB%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20038711

Tags

• From Kanagawa Prefecture
• Soccer player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.