Honda Eyes Role In S'pore Football

Ex-Samurai Blue is open to FAS projects, playing here and has started 4v4 tourney

- Deepanraj Ganesan

Former Japan star Keisuke Honda is one of Asia's most recognisable footballing exports, with his career taking him to Europe, South and North America and even Oceania.

And now the 38-year-old's business ventures — he is the co-founder and general partner of investment firm X&KSK — have brought him to Singapore where he is often spotted these days.

The former AC Milan and CSKA Moscow midfielder wants to be involved with Singapore football, should there be an interesting enough project, he told The Sunday Times at ITE College Central on March 1 during a media briefing for the 4v4 Singapore Cup, an Under-10 tournament that he has started.

While he did not go into details on how he would want to be involved, Honda said: "Singapore needs a different way in how to get stronger... so if the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has an interesting (project), I would get involved.

"To be honest, I'm waiting for (FAS) to choose an interesting way for me to be involved at some point."