{"id":61947,"date":"2026-07-21T21:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/61947\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:05:10","slug":"la-galaxy-acquire-japanese-forward-kyogo-furuhashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/61947\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Galaxy acquire Japanese forward Ky\u014dgo Furuhashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Signing<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/la-galaxy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Galaxy<\/a> have acquired forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/kyogo-furuhashi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ky\u014dgo Furuhashi<\/a> from English Championship side Birmingham City, the club announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Japanese international is under contract through the 2030-31 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re excited to welcome Ky\u014dgo to the LA Galaxy and to Los Angeles,\u201d said general manager Will Kuntz. \u201cHe brings a wealth of experience having played matches with Japanese national team, in the UEFA Champions League, and in some of the best domestic leagues in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re thrilled to add a player of his caliber, goal scoring ability, and diverse experience to our group and look forward to the impact he will make on and off the field.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furuhashi joins the Galaxy with 154 goals and 55 assists in 384 professional matches, highlighted by time at Scottish powerhouse Celtic FC.<\/p>\n<p>While at Celtic, he won nine titles and secured the 2022-23 Scottish Premiership Golden Boot.<\/p>\n<p>Furuhashi rose to prominence at J1 League side Vissel Kobe. He&#8217;s also competed for Ligue 1 side Stade Rennes.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, Furuhashi has scored five goals in 23 appearances for Japan.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/transfer-tracker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS Transfer Tracker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:\u00a0Signing The LA Galaxy have acquired forward Ky\u014dgo Furuhashi from English Championship side Birmingham City, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,17,40162,40161,40160,40159],"class_list":["post-61947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-japan","tag-japanese","tag-kyogo-furuhashi","tag-la-galaxy","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}