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IN ASSOCIATION WITH
Keisuke Honda
- Position: Midfielder
- Squad number: 18
- Date of birth: 13 June, 1986 (24 years old)
- Height: 6'0" (182cm)
Tournament totals
| Games played | Shots on target | off target |
|---|---|
| 4 Keisuke Honda | 3|5 Keisuke Honda |
| 0 As substitute | 16|19 Total Japan |
| 20 Most shots on target Diego Forlan | |
| 4 Total Japan | 12 Most shots off target Asamoah Gyan, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wesley Sneijder |
| Goals | Assists |
|---|---|
| 2 Keisuke Honda | 1 Keisuke Honda |
| 4 Total Japan | 2 Total Japan |
| 6 Best Diego Forlan | 4 Best Leo Messi, Bastian Schweinsteiger |
| Fouls by | on | Cards yellow | red |
|---|---|
| 11|20 Keisuke Honda | 1|0 Keisuke Honda |
| 55|89 Total Japan | 7|0 Total Japan |
| 20 Most fouls by Mark Van Bommel | 3 Most yellow Victor Caceres, Nigel De Jong, Gregory Van Der Wiel |
| 25 Most fouls on Andres Iniesta |
Japan games played
- Japan 1-0 Cameroon
Monday, 14 June Match report - Netherlands 1-0 Japan
Saturday, 19 June Match report - Denmark 1-3 Japan
Thursday, 24 June Match report - Paraguay 0-0 Japan
Tuesday, 29 June Match report
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Okazaki seals Japan win over Denmark 
Honda's stunning freekick for Japan 
Honda puts Japan in front Player profile
Singled out by coach Takeshi Okada as Japan’s key man, the powerfully-built attacking midfielder has enjoyed a meteoric rise since moving to Europe with Dutch side VVV-Vevlo and now CSKA Moscow.
A free-kick specialist with a powerful shot, Honda was recently described by one Japanese tabloid as “a missile comparable to Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo”.
Honda moved to VVV-Venlo in 2007 after four seasons at Nagoya Grampus. Although the Dutch club were relegated from the Eredivisie at the end of his first season, Honda hit 16 goals in 36 matches the following season as the club won the second division title and returned to the top flight.
In January, CSKA Moscow paid £5.1m to bring him to Russia. He became the first Japanese player to reach the Champions League quarter-finals when his winning free-kick against Sevilla fired CSKA into the last eight for the first time in their history.
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