One of the heroes of Leicester champion of Premier 2015-16, at the command of Claudio Ranieri, has announced that he will retire at the end of the season. That team starred in what is undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements in world sport.
This is the Japanese striker Shinji Okazaki37 years old and now a player of St. Truiden Belgian. The Japanese international signed for Leicester in the summer of 2015 and his first season with the King Power Stadium team could not have been more successful. This Monday his former clubs sent him messages of recognition.
“I gave everything as a footballer until this moment. When I saw that my body was going down, I felt that I had reached my limit,” he said. Okazaki. He is the third leading scorer in the history of the Japanese team (50 goals in 119 games). In Japanese He won the 2011 Asia Cup and participated in three World Cups.
Okazaki He started his career with Shimizu S-Pulse in his country and jumped to Europe by signing for Stuttgart in 2011. In 2013, he went to Mainz and then in 2015 at Leicester. The attacker left the Leicester upon the expiration of his contract at the end of the 2018-19 academic year.
With the letter of independence Okazaki signed for him Malaga, who canceled his signing after 34 days because the club could not pay his wages. The international for Japanese He also participated in Huesca (2019-21) and the Cartagena (2021-22).
Source: La Verdad
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