Shunsuke Nakamura

Shunsuke Nakamura is, to me, one of the purest technicians Japanese football ever produced. That wand of a left foot turned free kicks into something close to art, and his Champions League strike against Manchester United at Celtic Park is a memory I still cherish. Being the only player named J.League MVP twice tells you how long he stayed at the top. What I value most now is that he's passing his craft to the next generation as a national-team coach. Skill alone earned the world's respect, and he earned mine.

Name (English)

Shunsuke Nakamura

Name (Japanese)

中村俊輔

Reading

なかむら しゅんすけ

Born

June 24, 1978 (age 48)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse

Origin

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Official sitehttps://www.shunsuke.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shunsukenakamuraofficial/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunsuke%20Nakamura
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E6%9D%91%E4%BF%8A%E8%BC%94
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q191138

Tags

• Kanagawa Prefecture
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-20

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.