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. 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.

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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)

Origin

Sakurai, Nara, Japan

Height

172 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

September 18, 2026

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