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ese former

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player. She played for the Japan national team. She used her name "大竹奈美" until 2009. Her husband is the former footballer

Kento Tsurumaki is a former Japanese football player. He married Nami Otake, a former professional footballer on the Japan women's national football team Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is s ...

Club career

Otake was born in Machida on July 30, 1974. In 1989, she joined Yomiuri Beleza (later Nippon TV Beleza). She was selected for the Young Player Awards in

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. The club won the

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championship for four years in a row (

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). She was selected Best Eleven twice (

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and

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). She retired in July 2001.

National team career

On August 20, 1994, Otake debuted and scored a goal for the Japan national team against

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. She also played at the

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and

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, and the

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and 1999 AFC Championship. She was also in the Japanese squad for the

and 1999 World Cups and the

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. She played 46 games and scored 29 goals for Japan up to 1999.Japan Football Association
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Personal life

In July 2009, she changed her name from "大竹奈美" to "大竹七未".
/ref> She married the footballer Kento Tsurumaki in June 2012.

National team statistics

International goals

References

External links

* * * * *http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-nami-otake-beleza-march-27-1994-football-soccer-15th-all-japan-womens-40410180.html *http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/nami-otake-of-team-japan-controls-the-ball-as-tisha-news-photo/72362978#may-1999-nami-otake-of-team-japan-controls-the-ball-as-tisha-of-team-picture-id72362978 1974 births Living people Association football people from Tokyo Japanese women's footballers Japan women's international footballers Nadeshiko League players Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza players 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players Olympic footballers of Japan Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in football Footballers at the 1998 Asian Games Footballers at the 1994 Asian Games Women's association football midfielders Asian Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players {{Japan-footy-forward-1970s-stub