In the world of football filled with countless stars today, many of us are curious about who is waiting in the wings. This search for this wonder child follows; The young man who has the power to make us stand up and marvel at how they have mastered their craft despite their young age is always on the minds of millions of fans around the world.
With this in mind, we are at 101 great goals Another weekly series will offer you a look at players from all over the world who are 21 or younger. You will undoubtedly hear about some of them, while we hope to introduce you to some new names to pique your curiosity every now and then.
Name: Takefusa Kubo
age: I am 20 years old
location: right wing
place of birth: Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Citizenship: Japan
National team matches: 15th
current club: RCD Mallorca (on loan from Real Madrid).
The current market value (per Transfer Market): 9 million euros
Potential suitor (applicants): diverse
Japan has a long history of being a nation with a knack for being a neutral fan favorite at the international level samurai blue Entertainment as a country regularly showcases collective talent that many have not even heard of.
This trend began to spread to leagues across Europe in the late 1990s when Kazuyoshi Miura and emerging talent Hidetoshi Nakata became the first Japanese players to appear in Serie A when they arrived at Genoa and AC Perugia respectively. Although Miura would only spend a year in Italy before returning to Japan, Nakata would continue to trade with Roma, Parma, Bologna and Fiorentina via a credible career that helped break the barrier of talented Japanese footballers.
It didn’t take long either. The likes of Shunsuke Nakamura, Keisuke Honda, and Shinji Kagawa fronted a host of national players of technical talent admired by the likes of Arsene Wenger that would eventually make their way to top clubs across the continent and star in some of Europe’s biggest nights. Long since as the next big name to emerge from Japan, Takefusa Kubo She has great shoes to fill.
Already starring at the age of seven at youth level in tournaments outside Japan, Kubo joined the youth ranks of the domestic team and J-League club Kawasaki Frontale at the age of nine in 2010, but only spent one year in the academy group. Before joining La Masia Academy in Barcelona, which was set up for four years. After returning home and joining the Tokyo Football Club academy due to the sanctions imposed on Barcelona, his notoriety continued to grow when he performed strongly for the club’s Under-23 team before making his debut in 2016. In doing so, Kubo became the Japanese club’s youngest player. League date at the age of 15 and 5 months.
Five months later, Kubo set another record while in Tokyo in red and blue, becoming the youngest goalscorer in J-League history. After a quick loan with Yokohama Marinos, global giants Real Madrid will come to claim a free transfer in 2019.
Kubo then set another record after securing a loan move to RDC Mallorca after dazzling Madrid in the pre-season tour, He became the youngest Japanese player (18 years, 159 days) to score a goal in any of Europe’s top five leagues.
Dubbed the ‘Japanese Messi’, Kubo has been expecting great things from Kubo for years, but his football career barely took the path to stardom despite his rise to prominence as a youngster. He had a reliable loan period with Mallorca where he scored 4 goals and added 5 assists in 36 joint matches during the 2019-20 season.
GETAFE, SPAIN – SEPTEMBER 22: Kubo of RCD Mallorca celebrates Bodemir’s goal (out of frame) during the La Liga match between Getafe CF and RCD Mallorca at Coliseum Alfonso Pérez on September 22, 2019 in Getafe, Spain. (Photo by Quality Sport Images/Getty Images)
His spells with Villarreal and Getafe were less impressive, and until the end of the 2020-21 season, Kubo had not made a single appearance for Madrid since his arrival. At the moment, he is again on loan and back with Mallorca, and although he has missed eight league games due to a cartilage injury, he has started 15 of the 23 potential matches he had available for and is widely considered the most impactful piece in the league. Els Pirates The team is under director Javier Aguirre.
A lethal combination of speed and technical ability make him a force to be reckoned with, while his tactical versatility has allowed Aguirre as well as Japan national team manager Hajime Moriyasu to utilize him in either wing as well as in a central attacking role.
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Takefusa Kubo scores to make the score 1-0!#Tokyo Olympics x NBCSN pic.twitter.com/meCtTArCSW
– NBC Olympics (NBCOlympics) July 22 2021
With the Madrid team widely expected to reorganize this summer by targeting French star Kylian Mbappe and Need to empty a cadre of players Hoping to recoup €100m somewhere in the region through sales of players the likes of Gareth Bale, Eden Hazard and Isco, Kubo may also be on the junk list at the Santiago Bernabeu. Fortunately for Kubo, his age profile and football education should make him a controversial signature given the low fees he is likely to charge.
Worth just €9m by Transfermarkt and a full-fledged Japanese international while he still hasn’t reached his 21st birthday, there is still more than enough time for Takefusa Kubo to finally build a profile that many will be waiting for back home for a long time.
