The pictures above show Naohiro during the match against Australia at the 2006 World Cup.
JAPAN 1:3 AUSTRALIA (1:0) Nakamura (26). (12.06.06, Kaiserslautern - 46, 000) Yoshikatsu
Kawaguchi, Yuichi Komano, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (c), Alessandro Santos,
Keisuke Tsuboi (Teruyuki Moniwa 56, Masashi Oguro 91), Yuji Nakazawa,
Takashi Fukunishi, Hidetoshi Nakata, Shunzuke Nakamura, Naohiro Takahara, Atsushi Yanagisawa (Shinji Ono 79)
JAPAN 0:0 CROATIA (18.06.06, Nuremburg - 41, 000)
Yoshikatsu
Kawaguchi, Akira Kaji, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (c), Alessandro Santos,
Mitsuo Ogasawara, Yuji Nakazawa, Takashi Fukunishi (Junichi Inamoto 45),
Hidetoshi Nakata, Shunzuke Nakamura, Naohiro Takahara (Masashi Oguro 85), Atsushi Yanagisawa (Keiji Tamada 61)
JAPAN 1:4 BRAZIL (1:0) Tamada (33). (22.06.06, Dortmund - 65, 000)
Yoshikatsu
Kawaguchi, Keisuke Tsuboi, Akira Kaji, Alessandro Santos, Mitsuo
Ogasawara (Koji Nakata 56), Yuji Nakazawa (c), Junichi Inamoto,
Hidetoshi Nakata, Seiichiro Maki (Naohiro Takahara 60, Masashi Oguro 66), Shunzuke Nakamura, Keiji Tamada |
CLUB CAREER:
1998–2002 Júbilo Iwata 105 (58)
2001 Boca Juniors (loan) 6 (1)
2002–2006 Hamburg 97 (13)
2006–2008 Eintracht Frankfurt 38 (12)
2008–2010 Urawa Reds 63 (10)
2010 Suwon Samsung (loan) 12 (4)
2011–2012 Shimizu S-Pulse 46 (9)
2013–2014 Tokyo Verdy 41 (11)
2014–2015 SC Sagamihara 54 (11)
2016 Okinawa SV
Total 462 games (129 goals)