Yoshitaka Iida

Yoshitaka Iida (born 5 December 1980) is a Japanese sepak takraw player who played for the Japan national team as a server and later became its coach. He began with football under the influence of his older brother and passed the selection for the Nissan FC junior youth squad, the club that is now Yokohama F. Marinos, before moving back to his school team. At Asia University he met sepak takraw through Susumu Teramoto, then the ace attacker of the national team and a coach there, and went on to win the All Japan Student Championship. He was the youngest member of the Japan squad at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan and helped win a bronze medal, played in the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, and took team bronze at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou. He retired from playing for Japan around the 2011 world championship and became national team coach.