Japanese midfielder. Roma's 2001 Scudetto. The Asian pioneer in Italian football.
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Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Considered as one of the greatest Asian football players of all time and coming from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) country in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Nakata became the first ever AFC player to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or.