Shinji Okazaki talks team-mates: Who'd make the best manager? Who's the bossiest?

By Joe Brewin
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The Japanese striker – and new Premier League champion – talks his Foxes squad-mates with FFT...

Shinji Okazaki might well have been looking forward to his first season in English football with Leicester – but he certainly wouldn't have been expecting this. 

The 30-year-old striker has become only the second Japanese player in Premier League history to win the title (following Shinji Kagawa in 2012/13), having started 27 of the Foxes' matches this season in support of top goalscorer Jamie Vardy. 

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Joe Brewin
Joe Brewin

Joe was the Deputy Editor at FourFourTwo until 2022, having risen through the FFT academy and been on the brand since 2013 in various capacities. 

By weekend and frustrating midweek night he is a Leicester City fan, and in 2020 co-wrote the autobiography of former Foxes winger Matt Piper – subsequently listed for both the Telegraph and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards.