{"id":12360,"date":"2012-07-13T00:32:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/soccer-kagawa-happy-to-handle-man-united-pressure\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T00:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:32:16","slug":"soccer-kagawa-happy-to-handle-man-united-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/soccer-kagawa-happy-to-handle-man-united-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Kagawa happy to handle Man United pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Pangallo<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Japan international Shinji Kagawa backed<br \/>\nhis ability to handle the pressures associated with playing for<br \/>\nManchester United, saying on Thursday his move was the &#8220;greatest<br \/>\nchallenge&#8221; of his career.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old is United&#8217;s first high-profile signature of<br \/>\nthe close-season with his switch from German champions Borussia<br \/>\nDortmund and the move has generated huge media attention,<br \/>\nespecially in his native Japan.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a member of a great club at Manchester United,&#8221; Kagawa<br \/>\ntold the club&#8217;s website www.manutd.com.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely the greatest challenge of my career and I<br \/>\nhope to learn and improve every day.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I can handle the pressure and am pretty confident I<br \/>\ncan adapt to the style of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely feel the attention of the media globally now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kagawa made his name at Dortmund as an attacking playmaker<br \/>\nwhere he made 49 appearances and scored 21 goals in two<br \/>\nglittering seasons that yielded back-to-back Bundesliga titles.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His new manager Alex Ferguson said he expects Kagawa to<br \/>\nadapt quickly to life at the club and predicted his impact would<br \/>\nbe felt early on.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Pangallo July 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan international Shinji Kagawa backed his ability to handle the pressures associated with playing for Manchester United, saying on Thursday his move was the &#8220;greatest challenge&#8221; of his career. The 23-year-old is United&#8217;s first high-profile signature of the close-season with his switch from German champions Borussia Dortmund and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}