Celebrity Biographies
TAKEFUSA KUBO: HIS AGE, HIS HEIGHT AND HIS PAST AT FC BARCELONA
He was born in Kanagawa, Japan, on June 4, 2001. He started playing for soccer teams when he was only four years old, although the great goal of his life came at the age of 8, when a brochure from an FC campus came into his hands. Barcelona.
Thanks to that campus, he joined the Catalan team and began playing in the juvenile category in the 2012/2013 season, being the top scorer with 70 goals. Although he seemed like a star, the truth is that FIFA sanctioned the club transfers of underage players, Kubo being one of those affected. The sanction meant that these players could not play with the Catalan club until they turned 18.
Although he waited for a solution in Spain, he decided to return to Japan to play for Tokyo at just 15 years old, making his debut in the Japanese first division. Although there he demonstrated his enormous talent again, he never returned to Barcelona as he wished.
At the age of 18, he received an offer from Real Madrid which he accepted, although he has never played in the white shirt. Florentino Pérez’s team transferred him to teams like Villarreal, Getafe and Mallorca. Tired of being a globetrotter, he decided to sign for Real Sociedad, where he is one of the fans’ favorite players.
TAKEFUSA KUBO’S VIRAL PHRASE AT THE WORLD CUP IN QATAR
After his spectacular victory against Germany, the player spoke in perfect Spanish before the press and left a phrase that has made him a trend on social networks.
«We saw that we were not conceding a lot to the pressure and the coach took me away and took out Tomi -Tomiyasu- and we made a line of five, right? Eh… it was one of our plans, but since we were losing 1-0 we had to overtake him, and he gave us a fucking hell out of it!», He said. That phrase drove social networks crazy, which surrendered to his accent and his naturalness: “More Spanish than the siesta.”