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Bojan Krkic on his new life in Japan

Bojan Krkic came through the ranks at Barca’s youth academy and went on to play for the first team, before representing the likes of AC Milan and Ajax. But recently, he posted a picture of a new tattoo he got in Japan. The tattoo is the Japanese symbol for an expression called Ichi-go Ichi-e. This cultural concept teaches you to focus on the present, without allowing yourself to worry about the past or the future.

Bojan Krkic got this Japanese symbol tattooed on the back of his left arm. And it made us wonder… What does Bojan’s life look like in Japan? He’s currently plying his trade at Vissel Kobe with former FC Barcelona team mate Andres Iniesta. We didn’t necessarily want to ask him about the massive weight of expectations he carried around most of his career, especially after being hyped up as the new Lionel Messi at Barcelona when he was just a teenager. Bojan has spoken about that before. That’s water under the bridge.

We wanted to know about his new life in Japan, since he moved to the city of Kobe a little over a year ago. You must feel a deep connection with a place and culture, if you are tattooing philosophical symbols of it on your body. So we approached Bojan Krkic for this podcast, to get to know how he’s doing on and off the pitch in Japan, and how he fell in love with Japanese culture.

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