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Nakamura taking a gamble

AFP, Tokyo
Japanese star midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura, a key man in the country's World Cup campaign said Tuesday his move to Spain's Espanyol from Celtic will be a big gamble.
Nakamura, who turns 31 on Wednesday, changed his mind at the last minute about re-signing with the Japanese team where he started his professional career --Yokohama Marinos -- and instead opted to realise his long-held dream of playing in the Spanish league.
"I don't know whether or not I can get a regular position but I want to give all I have," he said in a message published in the Chunichi Sports daily on Tuesday.
"There is the possibility of losing everything 1 have built up," the left-footed playmaker and master of place kicks was quoted as saying in another daily, Sports Nippon.
On Monday, Nakamura's agent Roberto Tsukuda told Yokohama's management that the player had chosen Espanyol over the J-League side when his contract with the former Scottish champions expires at the end of this month.
The Sankei Shimbun, noting that a few Japanese have previously played in La Liga but left without making much impression, said it would be a "big gamble for him to move to Spain one year ahead of the World Cup."
"But he is determined to blaze the trail himself as he has always done."
Nakamura noted in his message that the top six or seven clubs in La Liga have the potential to be among the best four in the European Champions league.
"There are 14 matches against each of them every year and it is an awesome tiling itself," the message said.
"I feel attached to Yokohama and I thank them for the offer. But playing in Spain has been my dream and 1 want to try it," he said.
Japanese media praised the move by the 178cm (5ft lOins) Nakamura, whose career in Europe has so far included three seasons at Italy's Reggina and four more at Parkhcad.
"Nakamura has kept on progressing in the past seven years but he still aims to progress further as he says he wants to be more dangerous in front of goal'," Sports Nippon said.
"With Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo in Real Madrid now, Spain will undoubtedly be a perfect stage for Nakamura to raise the level of his play."
The mass-circulation Yomiuri Shimbun said Nakamura's decision reflected "his ambition and diligence."
"We will see how the peerless playmaker polishes his skills in Spain and contributes to the Japanese national team in next year's World Cup finals."