Sapporo (Japan) (AFP)– Japanese great Shinji Ono relinquished football at the age of 44 on (*44 *), finishing an occupation that saw him come to be the initial gamer from his nation to win a European club prize.
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Ono became part of the Feyenoord group that beat Borussia Dortmund in the 2002 UEFA Cup last, throughout an effective four-year job with the Dutch club.
The striking midfielder became part of an introducing wave of Japanese gamers relocating to Europe in the late 1990s and very early 2000s, together with Hidetoshi Nakata and Kazuyoshi Miura.
Nicknamed “Genius”, Ono made his global launching as an 18-year-old and bet Japan at the 1998 World Cup in France 2 months later on.
He played at 3 World Cups and won 56 caps, racking up 6 …