Masato Fukui signs for KF Tirana

Masato Fukui becomes the first Japanese player to sign for an Albanian club after he signed for KF Tirana on 16 July 2015. The attacking player started his career with his local club Gainare Tottori in Japan in 2011, before he left to join Home United FC in the Singaporean S.League. He first moved to Europe in the summer of 2013 with Montengrin club Sutjeska Nikšić, where he was an important player over the last two years, and he helped the club win the league in his first season. He played 68 games for the club and scored 13 goals between 2013 and 2015. He is known for scoring a long range goal from 60 metres away for Sutjeska Nikšić against Mladost Podgorica on 30 March 2014. Most recently he played for Sutjeska Nikšić in the Europa League, where he scored for the club against Debreceni VCS.