In the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, the away Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Betis 2-1, and Japan international Daichi Kamada scored the winning goal, which was his sixth goal of the season, and the number of Europa league goals has reached 10. In his fifth season in Europe, the 25-year-old Japanese player's worth has climbed to 22 million euros, ranking second among all Japanese players and fourth in Asia.
The goal against Betis was Kamada's sixth goal of the season, he made 23 Bundesliga appearances, contributing 2 goals and 2 assists, and the Europa League was 4 goals in 7 games, continuing his beautiful stats of 6 goals and 2 assists in 10 games in the Europa League in 2019-20, and he scored 10 goals in 17 Europa League games, which is more than his total goals in 86 Bundesliga games (9, and 23 assists).
Kamada was transferred from Tosu Sandstone to Eintracht Frankfurt for 1.6 million euros in the summer transfer period of 2017, was loaned to the Bundesliga side St. Turdon in the 2018-19 season, contributed 16 goals and 9 assists in 36 games on each front in a single season, returned to Frankfurt and became the main player of the team, so far he has 117 games, 21 goals and 26 assists, last season, he had 15 assists in the Bundesliga in a single season, ranking third in the Bundesliga assist list, only behind Bayern Müller and teammate Kostic.
According to Bild, Frankfurt has begun to discuss the renewal of the contract with Kamada. After all, the Japan international is in his current year, and his German turnaround price has steadily climbed from 1 million euros when he first joined Frankfurt to 25 million euros last summer, although it is currently down slightly, but he is still one of only four players in Asian football with a value of more than 20 million euros, followed by Son Heung-min, Azmond and Fuan Jianyang.
So, how many of the most expensive national football players can be ranked in Asia? The currently unemployed naturalized player Axon is tied for 35th, Wu Lei has fallen to a tie for 51st in Asia, even if the range is relaxed to the top 200, we can only rely on naturalized players to support the field, Fernandinho ranked 86th, Alain and Jiang Guangtai tied for 122nd, in addition to Wu Lei, the legitimate Chinese players, in the top 200 in Asia, only Yan Junling, who is tied for 147th, and Zhang Yuning, who is tied for 186th.