While the celebration was prolonged, the referee signaled the restart and Kashima's Hisashi Kurosaki equalized immediately.

In the 1995 season, Fukuda scored 32 goals, which made him the League's top scorer and a member of the J.League Best XI.

Urawa failed to win in the 90 minutes and the players fielded for the extra time knowing that they had already been relegated.

At the beginning of 2003, the testimonial match for Fukuda was held at Saitama Stadium where more than 50,000 supporters attended to bid farewell.

He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 Asian Cup and he played 4 games and scored 1 goal in the semi-final against China.

He was on the pitch, after replacing Kenta Hasegawa in the 59th minute, when Japan's hope to play in the finals in the USA was dashed by an injury-time Iraqi equaliser in the last qualifier, the match that the Japanese fans now refer to as the Agony of Doha.