Nakamura’s wedding cake trick
During his four years at Celtic the midfielder scored many special goals including a title winner at Kilmarnock and spectacular efforts home and away against Manchester United in the Champions League.
Nakamura was famed for the hours put in on the training ground perfecting his technique and is still earning plaudits as he runs down his career with Yokohama Marinos.
Those skills are now in demand off the pitch with his latest stunt involving curling a free kick at a wedding reception to knock the model of the bride and groom off the top of the wedding cake!
After completing the ‘trick’ Nakamura is seen celebrating with the family of the bride and groom.
Previously Nakamura had taken a free-kick which passed through a moving bus.
The Japanese icon joined Celtic in 2005 in a £3m deal from Reggina in Italy and quickly showed that he was at the club for more than commercial reasons as Gordon Strachan’s side regained domestic control in Scotland.
In his first season in the Champions League Nakamura scored the only goal of the game in 2006 when Celtic defeated Manchester United to reach the last 16 of the competition for the first time.
After three SPL titles Nakamura’s form dipped as Celtic allowed the title to slip away with the midfielder moving onto Espanyol at the end of his contract.
Following just one season in La Liga he returned to Japan where he became the first player to collect the J-League Player of the Year for a second time by winning the 2012 award.