Yōhei Ōtake

Yōhei Ōtake is one of those quietly persistent figures that the football world runs on — a Saitama-born midfielder born in 1989, from the exact kind of prefecture that breathes J.League culture. Saitama gave us Urawa Reds, Omiya Ardija, and generations of kids who grew up treating a ball like a second limb, so it's easy to picture him as one of those kids. At 166 cm he was never going to overpower anyone physically, but that kind of player usually compensates with positioning, reading the game, or sheer relentlessness — Taurus energy, honestly. The public record on him is thin, which is its own kind of story: a career spent grinding at levels where the cameras don't always follow. I find myself genuinely rooting for that type. Not every footballer gets a highlight reel, but they still put in the years.

Yōhei Ōtake is a Japanese soccer player born on May 2, 1989, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He stands 166 cm tall. He maintains a presence on social media through Instagram and X (formerly Twitter), suggesting continued activity in the sport.

Name (English)

Yōhei Ōtake

Name (Japanese)

大竹洋平

Reading

おおたけ ようへい

Born

May 2, 1989 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake (巳)

Origin

Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Height

166 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ytk_52/
• Xhttps://x.com/Yotake_19
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%AB%B9%E6%B4%8B%E5%B9%B3

Tags

• From Saitama 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.