http://www.101greatgoals.com/gvideos/westerlo-0-lierse-2/ Highlights. Not as many saves as usual but some good ones.
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He's definitely matured. I'm really happy for him, he's ready for something greater than Lierse. No offense for Belgian fans.
aside from the equalizing goal, Kawashima was really good stopping all those shots. Lierse is very lucky to have him between the post.
Thanks to Lierse which believed in him, but.. no. He has to go somewhere else, in a league more competitive than the Belgian league.
Looking at the highlights it seemed that Lierse should've won this. 9 clean sheets for Lierse this season :O
Another draw today I'm really surprised that we haven't heard more transfer news about Kawashima lately. His contract is up this summer and I'm pretty sure that he's looking to move on to another club.
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/soccer/news/2012/03/19/kiji/K20120319002861210.html wants to leave Belgium.
Currently Lierse's defense is the fifth best in the league, but the offense is the worst out of 16 teams.
Udinese will probably lose Handanovic next year, but they will have the return of Brkic from loan at Siena this year. WBA.. i don't know. I just hope that he'll find a better team and a better league than the one he's playing in.
I think clubs are hesitating simply because he japanese. It has never happend before. Unless you count Kawas short spell at Portsmouth. But I'm sure he is good enought for a better league.
Well, italian newspaper "La Gazzetta dello Sport" previously reported a Turin interest for Kawashima. Problem is that La Gazzetta while being the most popular sport newspaper in Italy is the same that wrote that Honda-Lazio was "done" one day before the ending of the transfer window. Turin is currently leading Serie B. It's true that he was in Italy in January though, there was a pic of him with a journalist.