Japanese player decides to join the men's soccer team

One of Japan's best female professional soccer players has signed a contract to play for a men's team.

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Japanese women's soccer player Yuki Nagasato revealed that she will join a men's soccer team, following in the footsteps of American player Megan Rapinoe for gender equality.

Nagasato, 32, who won the Women's World Cup in 2011, announced that she would play as a professional with Hayabusa Eleven, who includes her brother Genki, an amateur team in her hometown of Kanagawa.

Nagasato, whose country also finished runners-up at the 2015 World Cup and 2012 Olympics, said at the unveiling ceremony that she wanted to help build a society in which there are no boundaries related to gender or race.

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