Profile Keisuke Honda

Personal information

Full name : Keisuke Honda

Date of birth : 13 June 1986

Place of birth : Settsu, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height : 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)

Playing position : Deep-lying playmaker

Current club : CSKA Moscow

Number : 7

Youth career :

Settsu FC

1999–2001 Gamba Osaka

2002–2004 Seiryō High School

Senior career :

2005–2008 Nagoya Grampus Eight

2008–2009 VVV-Venlo

2009– CSKA Moscow

National team :

2005 Japan U-20

2006–2008 Japan U-23

2008– Japan

Club career

Early career

Born in Settsu, Osaka Prefecture, Honda commenced playing football with Settsu FC, the restricted group, when he was a second-grader at main school. He united Gamba Osaka's younger youth assembly but the group did not endorse him to their youth team. He moved into Seiryō High School in Ishikawa Prefecture and commenced playing for the school. He was one of the key players when Seiryō superior to the semi-final stage of the All Japan High School Soccer Tournament for the first time as a envoy of Ishikawa Prefecture. He was picked as one of the Designated Players for Development by J. League and JFA in 2004.

Nagoya Grampus Eight

Because of this position, Honda was competent to record as a Nagoya Grampus Eight competitor while he was still appropriate to play for his high school. He acted one J. League Cup correspond for Nagoya while he was still a student. After his graduation, he publically united Nagoya in 2005. He commenced the first correspond of the time of the year and kept details an assist. In 2006, he became a standard in the club.

VVV-Venlo

Honda celebrates his objective in resistance to FC Groningen at the De Koel stadium on August 22, 2009 On 16 January 2008, he noted a two and half year deal with Eredivisie boundary VVV-Venlo. He became famous as 'Keizer Keisuke' (Emperor Keisuke) amid the buff of VVV-Venlo.

CSKA Moscow

At the end of December 2009 Honda conveyed to the Russian CSKA Moscow. Honda noted a 4 year contract. The convey payment was unidentified, but VVV-Venlo was said to be very content with the payment as it virtually equated their requesting price. Honda made his debut for CSKA in the UEFA Champions League-match in resistance to Sevilla. In the second leg in Seville, he counted the victorious objective through a direct free hit for CSKA after having set up the first objective for Tomáš Necid. This sheltered a 2–1 (3–2 aggregate) win to convey the group to the quarterfinals, establishing Honda the first Japanese competitor to be in the quarterfinals as well as the first to count in the knock-out stages. Honda counted his first governing body objective on 12 March 2010, in the household correspond in resistance to Amkar Perm. He counted the objective in the third minute of damage time, slotting household a go beyond from Necid with his left. With the objective, he sheltered the win for CSKA Moscow.

International career

He was a component of the Japan assembly for 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship and acted for U-23 countrywide assembly, that certified for 2008 Summer Olympics football tournament finals. He made a full global debut for Japan on June 22, 2008 in a FIFA World Cup qualifier in resistance to Bahrain. On 14 July 2008, he was formally labelled as one of the midfielders of the Japanese U-23 countrywide football assembly for the Beijing Olympics football competition.[6] He counted his first objective for major countrywide assembly on 27 May 2009 in a congenial correspond in resistance to Chile at Nagai Stadium in Osaka.

2010 World Cup

Honda counted Japan's victorious objective in their first 2010 World Cup correspond in resistance to Cameroon, closing off Daisuke Matsui's pass over into the apex left corner of the mesh and this was the only objective in the match. His recital in the game advanced him the Man of the Match Award from FIFA. In the terminal group-stage game in resistance to Denmark, he counted a free hit in the 17th minute from 30 courtyards out before spinning provider for Shinji Okazaki after establishing his way into the retribution environs, with a Cruyff Turn that vanquish a Denmark competitor, in the 88th minute to make the count 3-1 to Japan, a recital that rake in him the man of the correspond reward one time more and Japan certified for the second around where they were abolished by Paraguay after 0-0 a.e.t. and 3-5 at retributions (Honda counted his penalty) .Jonathan Wilson of The Guardian cited him as a 'false nine': a competitor superficially engaged in work as a centre frontwards but departing deeper to haul the resistance vindicate throughout the pitch.