Asian Angle: Japan's Keisuke Honda Is Asia's Best Footballer
After witnessing another vintage Honda display earlier in the week, Goal.com's Chris Paraskevas labels the Japan attacker Asia's best.
By Chris Paraskevas
Keisuke Honda is Asia’s best footballer.
Beg to differ? No doubt you’ll bring up names such as Tim Cahill, Park Ji-Sung and Yasser Al-Qahtani in dispute of the claim.
Chances are though that if you watched Tuesday’s otherwise dull goalless draw between South Korea and Japan in Seoul, you won’t bother with the alternatives.
Honda was by far and away the best player on the pitch and commanded a presence that suggests he’ll be at one of Europe’s biggest clubs within the next couple of seasons.
With his tenacity off the ball and sublime skill on it he delivered an incredibly balanced performance and should have been the difference between the two sides, had Jung Sung-Ryong not produced a brilliant stop on one occasion and his finishing not let him down on the other.
The CSKA Moscow man attracted attention with his outstanding form in club football in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup, where he didn’t disappoint as he led Japan into the last 16.
In South Africa he displayed the sort of sharp finishing and vision with his passing that makes him a near-perfect attacking unit, capable of providing and scoring in equal measure.
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