Hull City have signed free agent Hidemasa Morita on a two-year deal, with a club option of a further year. Morita was released from Portuguese side Sporting at the end of the 2025-26 campaign after spending four years at the club. The defensive midfielder has won 40 caps for Japan, but he was not selected for the 2026 World Cup squad.
Daizen Maeda opened the scoring for Celtic in their 3-1 Scottish Cup final win over Dunfermline Athletic to make it nine goals in seven games. The Japan international becomes the first Celtic player since Jorge Cadete, in 1997, to score in seven consecutive games - he scored 12 goals in that time.
Hundreds of South Koreans will cheer for a North Korean women's football team when it makes a rare trip across the border for a continental semi-final this month, civic groups told AFP on Friday.The winner of the semi-final will advance to the final of Asia's top women's club competition in Suwon on May 23, against either Australia's Melbourne City or Japan's Tokyo Verdy Beleza. sjh/mjw/pst
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