VANCOUVER, BC – Masato Kudo was nothing short of a legend at his former club.
After all, the Tokyo, Japan native was Kashiwa Reysol's all-time leading goalscorer with 92 goals in 260 first-team appearances. And he had been with them since he was 10 years old, when he was one of 15 players picked out of a group of 200 to join the youth system.
It was his boyhood club – the team was “everything to him” – but it was time for a new challenge.
Enter Vancouver Whitecaps FC.