In all professional sports, the age of those competing often makes a big difference in how well they perform. This is especially true in football, where players spend over 90 minutes nearly constantly running.
Gordon Strachan has named the two players that he feels were his best signings and points to personality traits that added to their success as footballers.
The one-point lead was already gone by the time Celtic arrived at Pittodrie on the following Sunday, 4 December 2005, a Rudi Skacel double giving Hearts the three points at home to Livingston the day before.
On This Day in 2006, Celtic beat Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United thanks to a stunning strike from Shunsuke Nakamura. Although, United could have salvaged a point as Louis Saha was afforded a chance to equalise from the spot.
Part 3. About the custom “football notebook” that legend J.Leaguer Tsukasa Umezaki learned from Shunsuke Nakamura… 36-year-old Tsukasa Umesaki, the captain of Oita Trinita, who played more than 300 games as J-Leaguer and belonged to which Tomoki Iwata belonged from 2010 to 2020, is one of J-Leagers who was greatly influenced by Shunsuke Nakamura.
After joining Leicester City in 2015, Shinji Okazaki formed ridiculous front 3 with Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, and in 2016 he won EPL League title for the first time in the history of the club’s founding.
A few weeks ago the J.League announced that it will award 12 former players who have been active in J.League for many years and have contributed greatly to the development of Japanese football at the “J.League Awards” to be held on December 5, and Shunsuke Nakamura was selected as one of them.
A talk session between Wataru Endo, the captain of Japan national team who currently plays at Liverpool, and Celtic legend Shunsuke Nakamura has been released.
During Gordon Strachan’s time at the club he signed some real gems. Shunsuke Nakamura, Scott Brown and Artur Boruc being the most notable, while others such as Maciej Zurawski, Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Lee Naylor and Scott McDonald were all highly successful recruits brought in by WGS.
Today, friendly match of Japan v Germany was held in Wolfsburg. The match of Japan v Germany in Germany was the first time in about 17 years since the match held on May 30, 2006, and at that time Shunsuke Nakamura played from the start and it was draw (2-2).
Following Naka – An ‘inside’ story… As you no doubt know, Shunsuke Nakamura was referred to by his fellow Celtic players as ‘Naka’. As with his previous club Reggina, he found himself in wide right midfield despite being a rather one-footed leftie.
On This Day in 2005, Celtic signed Shunsuke Nakamura from Reggina as Gordon Strachan signed the Japanese star. Despite a number of teams pursuing the midfielder, Celtic succeeded and Nakamura was able to produce some spectacular moments across his three seasons in Glasgow.
Shunsuke Nakamura has made an appearance on Celtic’s Japan tour. The former Hoops star joined Reo Hatate, Kyogo Furuhashi, Daizen Maeda and Yuki Kobayashi at the Nissan Stadium for a press conference with the Japanese media this morning.
Takefusa Kubo, who plays at Real Sociedad, had a conversation with Celtic legend Shunsuke Nakamura on Japanese streaming service “WOWOW”. This conversation will be broadcast on 22 July, when Celtic v Gamba Osaka will be held on Celtic Japan Tour.
Koki Mizuno, who joined Celtic at the age of 22 and joined Iwate Grulla Morioka in J3 League from this season, looked back on the time he spent at Celtic and speaking to the Japanese media this week, recalled his time at the Scottish Champions… “I regret that I should have faced football more seriously.
Shunsuke Nakamura turned 45 years old yesterday. You can check out his impressive goals at Celtic in the video below. Also, this is how Kyogo talks about him while watching Shunsuke Nakamura’s goals.
Celtic have wished one of their favourite sons, Shunsuke Nakamura a Happy Birthday today. The ex-Japan international spent the best years of his career at Parkhead and gave the Hoops supporters many a good time and wonderful memories along the way during his time at Paradise.
Akihito Ido reckons that Celtic’s five Japanese stars, all brought to the club by Ange Postecoglou, will have no problems at all working under the soon to be appointed new manager Brendan Rodgers.
This may be exciting news for Celtic fans, so I’ll share it. According to Kyogo’s interview released this morning, after he won MVP (Player of the Year) of SPFL, It seems that he received a message “Congratulations.” from Shunsuke Nakamura.
Delusion has been sweeping through theRangers support the last week or so, more so than usual since they clinched the Summer Bragging Rights Cup. Scrolling through twitter you do find a few gems, but one yesterday really caught my eye regarding captain Tavpen.
My name is Yatao and some of you may know me from Twitter. I am a Content Creator and Origami Art Creator, Analyst working for think tank in Japan, and I pleased to have joined this team to write articles as Japanese Celtic author for The Celtic Star.
It was tense, very tense as Shunsuke Nakamura prepared to take the free kick for Celtic down at Rugby Park on this day in 2007. Two minutes of stoppage time had already been played and the scores were level at 1-1.
Tomoki Iwata is the latest in an ever growing line of Celtic signing to emanate from Japan. It goes without saying that the greatest and most revered Japanese player to ply his trade at Paradise was Shunsuke Nakamura.
Former Celtic midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura has decided to hang up his boots. The 44-year-old brings the curtain down on an illustrious career, especially with Celtic where he is fondly remembered for a spell in the noughties.
The Celtic connection both past and present in Japan remains strong. Here, two Celtic men former Hoops hero Shunsuke Nakamura and present day star Reo Hatate get together no doubt to discuss Celtic related matters.
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