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Arsenal new-boy Takuma Asano gets chance to shine in European football

Takuma Asano is Arsenal's second signing of the summer after Granit Xhaka. While Arsenal were snubbed by Leicester's Jamie Vardy, Arsene Wenger has taken inspiration from the Foxes by signing a Japanese striker. If Takuma Asano is half as successful as Shinji Okazaki, Arsenal fans may finally have an Asian player to cheer on the pitch. Asano, 21, will be hoping to make an impression where the likes of Junichi Inamoto and Ryo Ryo Miyaichi failed in London. Fast, flexible and feisty, he was far from the biggest name with Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J.League. Just like fellow Japan stars Okazaki and Keisuke Honda, he came through the country's high school system, one that has little...
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