The Union – Saint-Trond match will pit eight Japanese against each other this Sunday.
For several years, the love story has been beautiful between the Japanese and our Pro League. This season, Japan is even the country with the most footballers in our league (14) behind France.
Among them, six evolve in Saint-Trond and two play for the Union, two clubs which meet this Sunday.
“Belgium the ideal destination for Japanese footballers? | Jupiler Pro League”>Japanese footballers have a good profile for our league because they are fast, technical and disciplined”explained Philippe Bormans, the unionist CEO to our colleagues at RTBF.
This fashion has a direct impact as far as Japan, where football fans follow Pro League matches via online services such as DA ZN .
“The Belgian league is attracting more and more interest given the number of playersjapanese urs who are present “explains Isao Setogawa, an assiduous follower of the J League. “Since it is difficult to join England or Germany directly from Japan, our compatriots prefer to first learn their skills in Belgium before trying to secure a transfer to a bigger league. The Japanese follow a lot Saint-Truiden, which is better known here than clubs like Anderlecht, Bruges or Standard. And there is also great interest in Junya Ito (Editor’s note: Genk player), an essential player for our national team.
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