Daizen Maeda admits he wasn’t watching Real Madrid and Liverpool slugging it out when he was back in his homeland as he’s more interested in Major League than Champions League.
The Japanese star is looking forward to the big guns of Europe pitching up at Parkhead later this season but it doesn’t mean he takes too much interest at other times. Maeda prefers to use his football downtime to tune in to his other big sporting love – and it’s baseball he uses to touch base.
The frontman admits he was a pretty nifty player himself back in the day – but he was a defender rather than an attacker. Goodness knows what that means but you’d suspect a player who seems to have relentless energy would be handy are making the odd home run.
