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. 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.

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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

Origin

Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Height

166 cm

Occupation

Soccer player

• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2153610

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.