Man City sign Japan goalkeeper Yamashita

Manchester City person signed Japan goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita connected a three-year woody from INAC Kobe.

It is nan first clip nan 28-year-old has joined a nine from extracurricular her location country.

Yamashita said she is "very hungry" and looking guardant to nan situation of playing successful England's apical flight.

"I've won various trophies successful Asia, but to level up myself I felt nan request to return connected a challenge," she added.

"It's a celebrated nine that everyone knows, and moreover now, it feels unbelievable to me."

Yamashita, who played pinch City midfielder Yui Hasegawa astatine Tokyo Verdy, has featured 74 times for her state and has won 17 awesome honours during her career.

She is nan Women's Super League club's 3rd Japanese signing of nan transportation model pursuing nan arrivals of Risa Shimizu from West Ham and Aoba Fujino from Tokyo Verdy.