The descendants of Cha Boom are Japan, Japan, and Japanese...Design to sign rice cake shop club Frankfurt until 2030

Aug 07, 2025

The descendants of Cha Boom are Japan, Japan, and Japanese...Design to sign rice cake shop club Frankfurt until 2030
Hasebe Makoto and Doan Ritz, Frankfurt's No. 20. Source = Eintracht Frankfurt SNS



The descendants of Cha Boom are Japan, Japan, and Japanese...Design to sign rice cake shop club Frankfurt until 2030
Source=Bundesliga Official SNS
The descendants of Cha Boom are Japan, Japan, and Japanese...Design to sign rice cake shop club Frankfurt until 2030
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Japanese national winger Doan Ritz (27) has upgraded his career by joining Germany's Bundesliga traditional name Eintracht Frankfurt.

Frankfurt announced on its official channel on the 7th (Korea time) that it has signed a five-year contract with Doane, who played for the same German Bundesliga club Freiburg, until 2030.

The transfer fee reported by the media was 22 million euros (about 35 billion won), the third highest transfer fee in Japanese soccer history.




This is a glimpse of Frankfurt's expectations for its design. From the 2022-2023 season, Doan has grown every season by scoring seven goals (45 games), nine goals (42 games) and 10 goals (36 games), respectively, for Freiburg.

In particular, he scored double-digit goals (10 goals) in the league for the first time in his personal career in the 2024-2025 season.

The descendants of Cha Boom are Japan, Japan, and Japanese...Design to sign rice cake shop club Frankfurt until 2030
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With the transfer, Doan inherited a Japanese player playing for Frankfurt.




After striker Naohiro Takahara played in Frankfurt from 2006 to 2008, midfielder Junichi Inamoto (2007-2009), winger Takashi Inui (2012-2015), midfielder Makoto Hasebe (2014-2024), and Daichi Kamada (2017-2023) played in Frankfurt.

In particular, Hasebe retired splendidly, playing more than 300 games for Frankfurt and being considered a legend, and Kamada moved to Crystal Palace in the English Premier League (EPL) based on his performance in Frankfurt.

Recently, Japanese players and Frankfurt's 'chemistry' (chemistry) have been getting better and better. This is why Frankfurt, which has benefited from the Japanese effect, spent a large amount of money to recruit the design. Doan inherited Hasebe's uniform number 20, when he was in Frankfurt.




The descendants of Cha Boom are Japan, Japan, and Japanese...Design to sign rice cake shop club Frankfurt until 2030
However, it was a Korean, Cha Bum-keun, who first formed a kite with Frankfurt. Coach Cha Bum-keun played 156 games in Frankfurt's uniform for four years from 1979 to 1983 and scored 58 goals. It is considered the first example of the greatness of an Asian player on the Bundesliga stage.

After winning the UEFA Cup (the predecessor of the Europa League) in the 1979-1980 season and the DFB Pokal in the 1980-1981 season, he moved to Bayer Leverkusen.

In the early 2000s, fullback Shim Jae-won and Cha Du-ri joined Frankfurt, but they did not make a strong impression. No Korean players have joined Frankfurt for 20 years since Cha Du-ri, the current coach of Hwaseong FC, left Frankfurt in 2005.

The descendants of Cha Boom are Japan, Japan, and Japanese...Design to sign rice cake shop club Frankfurt until 2030
Hamburg, Leverkusen (Son Heung-min Son), Mainz (Park Joo-ho, Koo Ja-cheol, Lee Jae-sung), Wolfsburg (Koo Ja-cheol), Augsburg (Ji Dong-won, Hong Jung-ho), Bayern Munich (Kim Min-jae, Jung Woo-young), Freiburg (Kwon Chang-hoon, Jung Woo-young), Dortmund (Lee Young-pyo, Park Joo-ho), Leipzig (Hwang Hee-chan), Stuttgart (Jung Woo-young), Duisburg (Jung Woo-young), Dusseldorf (Chaduri), Willebelt (Chaduri), Bremen (Lee Dong-guk), Bochum (.

Frankfurt, which was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2012, qualified for the European Champions League by ranking third in the 2024-2025 season after ranking 11th, 7th, and 6th in the league from the 2021-2022 season. Based on the recruitment skills of Frankfurt director Marcus Krösche, who is called the "hand of Midas", he has earned 340 million euros (about 550 billion won) from five big transfers over the past two years.

Currently, there are a total of 11 Japanese players who belong to the Bundesliga club. Ito Hiroki (Bayern Munich), Doan Ritz (Freiburg), Sano Kaishu (Mainz), Machida Koki (Hofenheim), Fujita Joel Chima (Jankt Pauli), and Chase Henry (Stuttgart). Compared to last season, the number of players increased by three. By nationality, it is the seventh largest after France (35), Austria (28), Switzerland (15), Denmark (15), Belgium (13), and Croatia (12).

There are eight more than Korea, which has three players due to Hong Hyun-seok's loan from Mainz. Kim Min-jae (Munich), Lee Jae-sung (Mainz), and Jung Woo-young (Unyon) are defending the Bundesliga.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.