He will go down in history as the first Japanese player to have played at TFC. But Gen Shoji's purple adventure only lasted 13 months and 19 Ligue 1 games. Arrived in Toulouse in January 2019 for three million euros, the 27-year-old Japanese international defender joined Gamba Osaka, who formalized his signature (but not the transfer amount) this Monday, before being imitated by the red lantern of Ligue 1. The Japanese transfer window is open until March.
Shoji had already played in this club before joining the Kashima Antlers, still in the J-League, from 2011 to 2019. Rather correct in his first half-season, despite a certain lack of speed and physical density, the central rear only played 47 minutes during the current exercise, September 25 against Angers (0-2).
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Defender Gen #Shoji returns to Japan and commits to @GAMBA_OFFICIAL.
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Since then, the eighth finalist of the 2018 World Cup, under contract until June 2022, had a mysterious ankle injury that even a stay in Japan during the holidays had not managed to absorb. "There is nothing in the exams, but when he tries to train, his ankle is very swollen," could only deplore Antoine Kombouaré in mid-December, during his short parenthesis on the bench in Toulouse. Perhaps the air of the country will have unexpected therapeutic virtues. Answer (maybe) by the start of the championship on February 23…
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