Kakitani set to join FC Basel 
Japan striker Yoichiro Kakitani is set to join Swiss champions FC Basel, his Japanese club Cerezo Osaka have said. The 24-year-old, who played for Japan at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™,
will be given a formal send-off by Cerezo after next Tuesday's J.League game at home to Kawasaki Frontale, officials added on the club's website.
"After the disappointment of the World Cup I've been thinking (about my future)," Kakitani said in a statement, referring to Japan's failure to emerge from Group C.
"I've been offered the chance to move to Europe so I've decided to take the challenge and move to Basel." Basel have won the Swiss Super League for the past five years and did the double over Chelsea in the group stages
of the UEFA Champions League last season, although they failed to progress to the knockout round.
Japan crashed out of the World Cup in the first round after losing 2-1 to Cote d'Ivoire, drawing 0-0 with ten-man Greece and finishing with a 4-1 defeat against Colombia.
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