This weekend the curtain falls on the career of one of Japanese football’s all-time greatest players as Eintracht Frankfurt’s Makoto Hasebe laces up his boots for one final match.
The 40-year-old, who earned 114 caps for the Samurai Blue and captained the team to three consecutive World Cups, burst onto the scene with Urawa Reds in the mid-2000s but has played in Germany for the past 17 years and will when he plays against RB on Saturday Leipzig takes the field, he will make his 384th Bundesliga appearance.
His time in the country included stints at VfL Wolfsburg, where he won the Bundesliga in 2009, 1. FC Nurnberg and Frankfurt, with whom Hasebe added the German Cup and Europa League titles to his impressive medal tally, making him equally ranks high as considered in the Rhine-Main area while back home in Japan.
