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Ao Tanaka

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Also known as Tanaka Ao

Japanese association football player

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Ao Tanaka (Japanese: 田中碧, たなか あお) is a Japanese male association football player born on September 10, 1998, in Miyamae-ku. He plays as a midfielder and has been a member of the Kawasaki Frontale, Fortuna Düsseldorf, and the Japan men's national football team. His professional career began in 2017. Tanaka stands 177 centimeters tall and weighs 69 kilograms. He represents Japan in international competition and participated in the men's tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Key facts

2019
Japan
2024
Leeds United
Full name
Ao Tanaka
Date of birth
( 1998-09-10 ) 10 September 1998 (age 27)
Place of birth
Kawasaki, Kanagawa , Japan
Height
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position
Central midfielder
Current team
Leeds United
2001 2006
Saginuma SC
2007 2016
Kawasaki Frontale
Years
Team
2018 2022
Kawasaki Frontale
2021 2022
→ Fortuna Düsseldorf (loan)
2022 2024
Fortuna Düsseldorf
2019 2021
Japan U23

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
_Deceased Soccer
Position
Forward
Nationality
Japan

via TheSportsDB

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Japan
Place of birth
Miyamae-ku
Languages spoken
Japanese
Member of team
Fortuna Düsseldorf
Position played
midfielder
Country for sport
Japan
Mass
69
Image
Fumio Kishida with Japan National Football Team after Qatar World Cup (5) (cropped).jpg
Height
177
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date of birth
1998-09-10
name in native language
田中碧
start of work period
2017-00-00
sport number
4
Commons category
Ao Tanaka
name in kana
たなか あお
Sources (5)

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Encyclopedic overview

Ao Tanaka (田中 碧, Tanaka Ao; born 10 September 1998) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Leeds United and the Japan national team.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ao Tanaka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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