is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.
Biography
Nakanishi was born in Suzuka on June 23, 1973. After graduating from Yokkaichi Chuo Technical High School, he joined J1 League club JEF United Ichihara in 1992. Although he mainly played as defender, he played many position including midfielder and forward in mid 1990s. The club won the 2nd place at 1998 J.League Cup and 3rd place at 2001 and 2003 J1 League. He moved to Yokohama F. Marinos in 2004. The club won the champions at 2004 J1 League. He retired end of 2006 season.
In September 1997, Nakanishi was selected the Japan national team for 1998 World Cup qualification. At this qualification, on September 7, he debuted against Uzbekistan. At 1998 World Cup, he played in the first two games as left back of three defense with Masami Ihara and Yutaka Akita. However he received a yellow card in both games, he was suspended in the third game. He played 14 games for Japan until 2002.
Statistics
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|1992||rowspan="12"|JEF United Ichihara||rowspan="12"|J1 League||colspan="2"|-||3||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||10||0 |- |1993||32||2||1||0||6||3||colspan="2"|-||39||5 |- |1994||22||1||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||25||1 |- |1995||31||5||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||32||5 |- |1996||20||5||0||0||10||1||colspan="2"|-||30||6 |- |1997||18||4||1||1||6||1||colspan="2"|-||25||6 |- |1998||22||2||1||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||25||2 |- |1999||26||9||1||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||28||10 |- |2000||27||3||3||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||31||3 |- |2001||29||3||3||2||4||0||colspan="2"|-||36||5 |- |2002||24||0||2||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||30||0 |- |2003||22||0||0||0||2||1||colspan="2"|-||24||1 |- |2004||rowspan="3"|Yokohama F. Marinos||rowspan="3"|J1 League||20||0||0||0||6||0||3||0||29||0 |- |2005||13||0||2||0||1||0||3||0||19||0 |- |2006||3||0||0||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||6||0 309||34||19||4||55||6||6||0||389||44 309||34||19||4||55||6||6||0||389||44 |}