Riki Takagi (髙木 理己, Takagi Riki, born July 13, 1978) is a Japanese football manager. He currently manager of AC Nagano Parceiro.
Club career
After featuring for both Funabashi Municipal High School and the Teikyo University, Takagi opted to retire and pursue a coaching career from the upcoming year.
Managerial career
He faced a decade as a coach in three different high schools, only to end up at Kyoto Sanga in 2011: under the guide of Takeshi Oki, he worked as an assistant coach from 2011 to 2013.[1]
The year after, he found a new job at Gainare Tottori, where he stayed two years before joining Shonan Bellmare.[2][3] Nevertheless, he stayed just one year in Hiratsuka, since Gainare Tottori offered him a new job at the club, this time as the coach of the U-18 side.[4]
After the dismissal of Daisuke Sudo by the club, Gainare offered Takagi the top team coaching spot, which he accepted for the 2019 season.[5] His work was notable, since he won the "Manager of the Month" Award twice in his rookie season (in July and October 2019).[6][7]
He was dismissed from the head coach of Gainare Tottori on May 4, 2021 [8]
On 27 November 2022, Takagi appointed of manager J3 club, FC Imabari from 2023 replace Kazuaki Hashikawa left the club after end of 2022 season. [9]
Managerial statistics
As of appointment manager of FC Imabari 27/11/2022.[10]