Shunsuke Maeda

There's something quietly compelling about a guy who grew up kicking a ball around Sakurai, a small city in Nara that most people outside Japan couldn't find on a map, and somehow carved out a professional football career from it. Shunsuke Maeda stands at 173 cm — not exactly towering by any standard — but that kind of player usually makes up for it in sharpness, footwork, and football IQ, and honestly that's the more interesting type to watch anyway. He came through Sanfrecce Hiroshima's youth system and played at the 2005 World Youth Championship before turning to coaching, and the fact that he made it out of a quiet provincial town and into professional football tells you there was real drive there — the kind that doesn't come from hype, just from genuinely loving the game.

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Shunsuke Maeda is a retired Japanese football forward and coach born on June 9, 1986, in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture. Standing 173 cm tall, he came through Sanfrecce Hiroshima's youth team, played for Japan at the 2005 World Youth Championship, and has since coached clubs including Okinawa SV and Diablossa Takada FC.

Name (English)

Shunsuke Maeda

Name (Japanese)

前田俊介

Reading

まえだ しゅんすけ

Born

June 9, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Sakurai, Nara, Japan

Height

173 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%8D%E7%94%B0%E4%BF%8A%E4%BB%8B
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1092667

Tags

• From Nara Prefecture
• Soccer player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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