{"id":17909,"date":"2019-06-15T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T08:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=17909"},"modified":"2019-06-15T17:26:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T08:26:50","slug":"japanese-messi-takefusa-kubo-joins-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2019\/06\/15\/japanese-messi-takefusa-kubo-joins-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Japanese Messi’ Takefusa Kubo Joins Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japanese attacking midfielder Takefusa Kubo has completed a move to Real Madrid from FC Tokyo, as officially announced<\/a> by the club.<\/p>\n

The former Barcelona academy graduate, dubbed the ‘Japanese Messi’ by supporters, was pursued by a number of top European clubs, but eventually settled on a move to the Spanish capital to join\u00a0Los Blancos.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Currently on international duty with Japan as they prepare to make a guest appearance at the 2019 Copa America in Brazil. The 18-year-old recently made his debut for the Samurai Blue, becoming the second- youngest player<\/a> to ever make his debut for the Japanese national side.<\/p>\n

Kubo’s move to Real Madrid adds yet another impressive coup to what has already been an incredible summer for the 13-time European Champions. Real have already signed Eden Hazard from Chelsea, along with Luka Jovic, Eder Militao, Rodrygo, and Ferland Mendy.<\/p>\n

Upon his arrival at the Bernabeu, Kubo is expected to play for the Castilla team in the Spanish second division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese attacking midfielder Takefusa Kubo has completed a move to Real Madrid from FC Tokyo, as officially announced by the club. The former Barcelona academy graduate, dubbed the ‘Japanese Messi’ by supporters, was pursued by a number of top European clubs, but eventually settled on a move to the Spanish capital to join\u00a0Los Blancos.\u00a0 Currently on international duty with Japan as they prepare to make a guest appearance at the 2019 Copa America in Brazil. The 18-year-old recently made his debut for the Samurai Blue, becoming the second- youngest player to ever make his debut for the Japanese national side. Kubo’s move to Real Madrid adds yet another impressive coup … Continue reading “‘Japanese Messi’ Takefusa Kubo Joins Real Madrid”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":17911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-17909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}