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 172 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. Born in 1986, Year of the Tiger, which feels weirdly right for a forward who has to play with some nerve and instinct every time he steps on the pitch. I don't know every chapter of his story, but the basic 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.

Shunsuke Maeda is a Japanese soccer player born on June 9, 1986, in Sakurai City, Nara Prefecture. Standing 172 cm tall, he is a Gemini born in the Year of the Tiger. Most personal and career details remain private or unconfirmed in public sources.

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)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger (寅)

Origin

Sakurai, Nara, Japan

Height

172 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Motto

Private

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

Tags

• From Nara Prefecture
• Soccer player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.