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takeyuki tadokoro

Takeyuki Tadokoro

I believe kicking is
the most fundamental skill in football.

However, scientific knowledge on kicking is still insufficient for practice,
and kicking training is not well organised, at least in Japan.

This is why I started working as a kicking coach.

My career goal is to provide high quality training to as many players as possible, both professional and amateur, 
who want to improve their technique.

Coaching experience

professional players

2020~Kazuto Takezawa(FC Ryukyu, J3)
2020~Sho Sumida(Matsumoto Yamaga FC, J3)
2023~Yudai Tanaka(Fagiano Okayama, J2)
2023~Yoshio Koizumi(Urawa Red Diamons, J1)

Yoshio Koizumi
(a member of the 2022 Asian champion)

professional clubs

2022~FC Osaka(J3)
2024~Mito Hollyhock(J2)

amateur players

2023~Kicking school in Tokyo
In 2023, the total number of participants was 2186(216sessions).

Academic background

2019-2023 University of Tokyo
Bachelor of liberal arts

Major: cognitive science
Sub major: Sports science(Biomechanics)

Undergraduate research
“Effect of pelvic rotation and hip external rotation training on the side-foot kick”

Publication

April 2023
Wrote a book on the mechanics of kicking to the general readers.

Circulation is more than 10,000 copies as of May 2024.

English skills

My IELTS overall score as of October 2022 is 7.0.
The scores for each section are as follows.

Listening: 7.0
reading: 8.0
Writing: 6.5
Speaking: 6.0

Projects in progress

Overseas expansion

I stayed in Kenya and the UK in June 2024 and held some training sessions.
I’ll be in London in October 2024 for whole month.

Kenyan professional leaguers
(Nairobi city stars, division1)

London football school

AI coach development

In collaboration with a university research institute, we are developing AI coach that automatically provide personalized training based on video data input.