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{{short description|Japanese footballer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Keisuke Tsuboi<br/>坪井 慶介
| image = Keisuke Tsuboi.jpg
| upright = 1.4
| caption = 
| full_name = Keisuke Tsuboi<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |title=2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Japan |publisher=FIFA |page=16 |date=21 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610174527/https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2019}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|9|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tama, Tokyo|Tama]], [[Tokyo]], Japan
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| height = 1.79 m
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| currentclub = 
| youthyears1 = 1995–1997
| youthclubs1 = Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo High School
| collegeyears1 = 1998–2001
| college1 = [[Fukuoka University]]
| years1 = 2002–2014
| clubs1 = [[Urawa Red Diamonds]]
| caps1 = 292
| goals1 = 1
| years2 = 2015–2017
| clubs2 = [[Shonan Bellmare]]
| caps2 = 28
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2018–2019
| clubs3 = [[Renofa Yamaguchi]]
| caps3 = 28
| goals3 = 0
| totalcaps = 348
| totalgoals = 1
| nationalyears1 = 2003–2007
| nationalteam1 = [[Japan national football team|Japan]]
| nationalcaps1 = 40
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Team|[[Urawa Red Diamonds]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[AFC Champions League]]|[[2007 AFC Champions League|2007]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[J1 League]]|[[2006 J.League Division 1|2006]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J1 League]]|[[2004 J.League Division 1|2004]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J1 League]]|[[2005 J.League Division 1|2005]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J1 League]]|[[2007 J.League Division 1|2007]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J1 League]]|[[2014 J.League Division 1|2014]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[J.League Cup]]|[[2003 J.League Cup|2003]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J.League Cup]]|[[2002 J.League Cup|2002]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J.League Cup]]|[[2004 J.League Cup|2004]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J.League Cup]]|[[2011 J.League Cup|2011]]}}
{{Medal|RU|[[J.League Cup]]|[[2013 J.League Cup|2013]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[Emperor's Cup]]|[[2005 Emperor's Cup|2005]]}}
{{Medal|W|[[Emperor's Cup]]|[[2006 Emperor's Cup|2006]]}}
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Keisuke Tsuboi'''|坪井 慶介|Tsuboi Keisuke|born 16 September 1979}} is a Japanese former professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[defender (association football)|defender]].<ref>{{J.League player}}</ref>

==Club career==
Tsuboi was educated at and played for Yokkaichi Chuo Kogyo High School and [[Fukuoka University]].

After graduating from the university in 2002, he joined [[Urawa Red Diamonds]] and immediately broke into the first team. His first appearance came on 3 March 2002 against [[Yokohama F. Marinos]] in opening game in [[2002 J.League Division 1|2002 season]]. He scored his first league goal on 17 May 2003 against [[Gamba Osaka]]. He won the Rookie of the Year award in 2002 and was selected as one of the J.League Best Eleven in 2003. In 2006, Reds won the champions in [[2006 J.League Division 1|J1 League]] which is first J1 champions in the club history. In 2007, Reds won first Asian title [[2007 AFC Champions League|AFC Champions League]]. Although he played many matches as regular center back until 2010, he could not play many matches from 2011.

In 2015, Tsuboi moved to [[Shonan Bellmare]].<ref>[http://www.bellmare.co.jp/115207 Shonan Bellmare]{{in lang|ja}}</ref> However he could not play many matches and Bellmare was relegated to [[J2 League]] end of [[2016 J1 League|2016 season]]. In 2018, he moved to J2 club [[Renofa Yamaguchi FC]].<ref>[http://www.renofa.com/archives/28959/ Renofa Yamaguchi FC]{{in lang|ja}}</ref>

==International career==
Tsuboi represented [[Japan national football team|Japan]] for the [[Football at the 2001 Summer Universiade|2001 Summer Universiade]] held in Beijing where the team won the title beating [[Ukraine national football team|Ukraine]] in the final.

Japan's national coach [[Zico (footballer)|Zico]] gave him the first cap in 2003 when he played Tsuboi on 11 June 2003 in a friendly against [[Paraguay national football team|Paraguay]] at [[Saitama Stadium]].<ref name="nationalteam">[http://www.jfootball-db.com/en/players/tsuboi_keisuke.html Japan National Football Team Database]</ref> He was a member of the Japan team for [[2006 FIFA World Cup]] where he played 2 games against [[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia]] and [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]].<ref name=nationalteam/> In Japan's first match against Australia, he suffered from cramps in his both thighs and had to be replaced by [[Teruyuki Moniwa]] in the 56th minute.

He was also in the squad for [[2007 AFC Asian Cup|2007 Asian Cup]] but did not play any game in the tournament as [[Yuki Abe]] and [[Yuji Nakazawa]] were the first-choice centre backs.

On 8 February 2008, he announced retirement from international football.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://jeremy.footballjapan.co.uk/2008/02/tsuboi_offered_.html| title =Tsuboi offered something different in Japan's defence| date = 11 February 2008 | access-date = 28 December 2012 | publisher =A View From A Brit by Jeremy Walker}}</ref> He played 40 games for Japan until 2007.<ref name=nationalteam/>

==Career statistics==

===Club===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition<ref>Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, [https://www.amazon.co.jp/J1-J3%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E5%90%8D%E9%91%91%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E7%89%88-2018-NSK-MOOK/dp/4905411521 "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)"], 7 February 2018, Japan, {{ISBN|978-4905411529}} (p. 231 out of 289)</ref><ref>Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, [https://www.amazon.co.jp/2016J1-J2-J3%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E5%90%8D%E9%91%91-NSK-MOOK/dp/4905411335/ref=pd_cp_14_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1N6B11BBGDQ32GYF7MWJ "2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑"], 10 February 2016, Japan, {{ISBN|978-4905411338}} (p. 69 out of 289)</ref>

|-
!rowspan="2"|Club
!rowspan="2"|Season
!colspan="2"|League
!colspan="2"|[[Emperor's Cup]]
!colspan="2"|League Cup
!colspan="2"|Champions League
!colspan="2"|Other{{efn|Includes [[Japanese Super Cup]] and [[FIFA Club World Cup]].}}
!colspan="2"|Total
|-
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
!Apps
!Goals
|-
|[[Fukuoka University]]
|1999
|colspan="2"|–||3||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||3||0
|-
|rowspan="13"|[[Urawa Red Diamonds]]
|[[2002 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2002]]
|30||0||1||0||8||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||39||0
|-
|[[2003 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2003]]
|30||1||1||0||11||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||42||1
|-
|[[2004 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2004]]
|14||0||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||15||0
|-
|[[2005 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2005]]
|33||0||5||0||2||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||40||0
|-
|[[2006 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2006]]
|27||0||2||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||1||0||31||0
|-
|[[2007 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2007]]
|31||0||1||0||0||0||12||0||4||0||48||0
|-
|[[2008 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2008]]
|21||0||2||0||6||0||4||0||colspan="2"|–||33||0
|-
|[[2009 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2009]]
|29||0||1||0||7||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||37||0
|-
|[[2010 Urawa Red Diamonds season|2010]]
|31||0||4||0||3||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||38||0
|-
|[[2011 J. League Division 1|2011]]
|5||0||3||0||2||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||10||0
|-
|[[2012 J. League Division 1|2012]]
|33||0||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||35||0
|-
|[[2013 J. League Division 1|2013]]
|7||0||2||0||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|–||12||0
|-
|[[2014 J. League Division 1|2014]]
|1||0||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||3||0
|-
|rowspan="3"|[[Shonan Bellmare]]
|[[2015 J1 League|2015]]
|8||0||1||0||6||1||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||15||1
|-
|[[2016 J1 League|2016]]
|15||0||1||0||4||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||20||0
|-
|[[2017 J2 League|2017]]
|5||0||2||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||7||0
|-
|rowspan="2"|[[Renofa Yamaguchi]]
|[[2018 J2 League|2018]]
|23||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||24||0
|-
|[[2019 J2 League|2019]]
|5||0||1||0||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||colspan="2"|–||6||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Career total
!348||1||34||0||53||1||18||0||5||0||458||2
|}

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===International===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+ Appearances and goals by national team and year<ref name=nationalteam/>
|-
!National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals
|-
|rowspan="5"|[[Japan national football team|Japan]]
|[[2003 Japan national football team|2003]]||11||0
|-
|[[2004 Japan national football team|2004]]||10||0
|-
|[[2005 Japan national football team|2005]]||7||0
|-
|[[2006 Japan national football team|2006]]||11||0
|-
|[[2007 Japan national football team|2007]]||1||0
|-
!colspan="2"|Total!!40!!0
|}

==Honours==
'''Urawa Reds'''
* [[J1 League]]: [[2006 J.League Division 1|2006]]
* [[Emperor's Cup]]: [[2005 Emperor's Cup|2005]], [[2006 Emperor's Cup|2006]]
* [[J.League Cup]]: [[2003 J.League Cup|2003]]
* [[AFC Champions League]]: [[2007 AFC Champions League|2007]]
* [[Japanese Super Cup]]: [[2006 Japanese Super Cup|2006]]

'''Shonan Bellmare'''
* [[J2 League]]: [[2017 J2 League|2017]]

'''Individual'''
* [[J.League Best Eleven]]: [[2003 J.League Cup|2003]]
* [[J.League Rookie of the Year]]: [[2002 J.League Division 1|2002]]
* [[J.League Cup#New Hero Award|J. League Cup New Hero Award]]: [[2002 J.League Cup|2002]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{FIFA player|198972}}
* {{NFT}}
*{{Soccerway}}
* {{J.League player}}
* [http://www.jfootball-db.com/en/players/tsuboi_keisuke.html Japan National Football Team Database]
* [http://www.renofa.com/archives/player2019/df2_tsuboi/ Profile at Renofa Yamaguchi FC] {{in lang|ja}}
* [http://soccer.yahoo.co.jp/jleague/players/detail/4394 Yahoo! Sports Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714181227/http://soccer.yahoo.co.jp/jleague/players/detail/4394 |date=14 July 2014 }} {{in lang|ja}}


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[[Category:People from Tama, Tokyo]]
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[[Category:Men's association football defenders]]
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