Bulgarian football star striker Hristo Stoichkov (L) shakes hands with Akira Nishino (R), head coach of Japan's professional football club Kashiwa Reysol, at a press conference in Kashiwa, east of Tokyo, 16 July. Stoichkov, one of the top scorers in the 1994 World Cup in the United States, arrived 15 July to join the Japanese football club.