In October 2008, I flew from Buenos Aires to Tokyo and, in a state of jet-lagged numbness, watched five matches in 10 days. I saw a lot of attractive, organized soccer, much that was technically correct. However, after a while weary appreciation slumped into exhausted grouchiness as I waited for somebody, somewhere, to do something different, to smash the neat conformist patterns and disperse the fog into which my brain had sunk.
Japanese football star Keisuke Honda is honest about his national team's chances of becoming world-beaters.
Keisuke Honda is the rising star of Japanese football.
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