Keisuke Honda joins Mexican club Pachuca as a free agent two months after leaving AC Milan- Keisuke Honda has joined CONCACAF Champions League holders Pachuca
- The Japan international joins as a free agent after leaving Italian club AC Milan
- Honda spent four seasons with Milan without registering a top-five finish
Keisuke Honda has joined Mexican side Pachuca, the CONCACAF Champions League holders announced on Friday.The Japan international joins Pachuca as a free agent, two months after leaving Serie A giants AC Milan.'I have just signed for Pachuca and I'm very happy,' Honda said in Spanish in a video on the club's Twitter feed.The club has not disclosed the details of his contract.
Honda, 31, has 86 caps for Japan, scoring 36 goals, and is the only Japanese player to score in two separate World Cups, netting in the 2010 and 2014 tournaments.
He joined Milan in January 2014 for a reported £17.6million fee from CSKA Moscow but could not halt the decline of the Italian giants, who finished outside the top five in each of his four seasons at the San Siro.
He admitted after his last game, a 2-1 defeat at Cagliari for which he was named club captain, that his time at Milan had been a disappointment.
He said: 'Unfortunately, I could not play in the No 10 role as often as I would have liked but I never gave up and did the best I could.
'I approached every game and training session with all my passion.'
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