R. Ichihara

R. Ichihara is a 20-year-old Japanese defender currently playing for AZ Alkmaar, where he wears the number 18 shirt. Standing at 185 cm and weighing 78 kg, Ichihara is a physically imposing centre-back whose game is built on reading play early and stepping into passing lanes. He is still raw but shows the calm distribution and one-on-one defending that mark modern ball-playing defenders. His nationality and age place him among a growing wave of Japanese talent testing themselves in E...