The Fearless Believer. Keisuke Honda

Chapter 3 Road To The Top

My Dream, by Keisuke Honda

“I’m dead serious about this. So I just want people to leave me alone. Just forget about me until the World Cup. I’ll answer since you ask, but all I can say is ‘Wait and see.’ I’ll be looking back at those who think it can’t be done.”January 2013, during independent training in Miyako-jima

“We’re going to destroy everyone who underestimates us one by one. It would’ve been best if we were underestimated until the World Cup started, but now that Shinji (Kagawa) and Yuto (Nagatomo) went to major clubs, the secret’s out that Japan’s got excellent players.”November 2013, before a friendly match with Belgium

“Now all we gotta do is believe -- believe that in this day, Keisuke Honda is going to do it. Of course, I’m not going to do it alone, and we’re going to do it as a team. But I have to push through with my belief. Because nobody knows what’s going to happen tomorrow.”December 2013, upon hearing the results of the Brazil World Cup group drawing

The way he smashes stereotypes and confidently surges forward is like no other.It makes us wonder that perhaps he is much more than just a leader of Japan’s football team.

Here is a man who could potentially become a new leader of a Japanese society that is in transition. As he continues to fascinate and influence everyone with his powerful words and actions,Honda will take centre stageof the Brazil World Cup this summer.

And nothing can stop him from believing. The Fearless Believer Keisuke Honda