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Kansei Matsuzawa made up his mind to become an NFL kicker knowing almost nothing about the NFL.<\/p>\n

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It was 2018. Matsuzawa was 19, lived in Japan and had never kicked a football. He knew two players \u2014 Joe Montana and Tom Brady \u2014 and not a single rule.<\/p>\n

A million high schoolers in the U.S., and nearly 80,000 go on to play in college. Between active rosters and practice squads, there are only around five dozen placekicking jobs in the NFL. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I was like, I\u2019m 19, and I think I still have a chance,\u201d Matsuzawa told NBC News. <\/p>\n

Eight years, hours of self-taught YouTube kicking tutorials and one NCAA all-America season later, the crazy part is no longer Matsuzawa\u2019s belief that he could come to the U.S., speaking almost no English, and become a pro in a sport he had barely played. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s that the plan worked.<\/p>\n

Last month Matsuzawa, 27, became the first Japanese-born player ever signed by an NFL team when he agreed to a deal as an undrafted free agent with the Raiders \u2014 a team co-owned by Brady. Arriving at the team\u2019s rookie minicamp last month outside Las Vegas was \u201can emotional time a little bit,\u201d Matsuzawa said. \u201cI was so excited. Especially Raiders, in black and white, is really cool.\u201d <\/p>\n

He\u2019s not the only person who thinks so. Four social media posts by the NFL about Matsuzawa\u2019s unlikely route to the league have generated about 3 million impressions combined globally, the league said. <\/p>\n

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.@kan08sei’s dream came true \ud83e\udd79 @Raiders | @NFLDraft | @NFLJapan pic.twitter.com\/7LLUEaC03P<\/p>\n

\u2014 NFL (@NFL) April 27, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The person who seems least surprised by it all is Matsuzawa, perhaps the league\u2019s only 27-year-old rookie with flecks of gray in his hair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe [in] myself,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s the only way to become something great.\u201d <\/p>\n

His deal doesn\u2019t guarantee he will make the roster of the Raiders, or any other team, but the degree of difficulty of getting even this far shouldn\u2019t be understated, said Karif Byrd, a former college receiver who co-owns EBS Performance, a Southern California training facility where Matsuzawa has trained this spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say it\u2019s probably like jumping out of a 50-foot building head first,\u201d Byrd said, \u201cand surviving.\u201d<\/p>\n

An international journey<\/h2>\n

In the U.S., where football was invented, the sport has become the most watched, most valuable property across all sports. Yet it hasn\u2019t translated to the rest of the globe with quite the same level of domination. The International Federation of American Football counts football-playing members in 79 countries, but the global governing bodies of basketball and soccer boast federations in more than 200 countries. Just 3% of players on NFL rosters last season were foreign-born, according to one analysis. <\/p>\n

To grow its audience, the NFL has taken regular-season games to other countries, from Australia to Germany. The league has also looked internationally to broaden its talent pool. <\/p>\n

Matsuzawa is one of 12 players, representing 10 nations, in this year\u2019s International Player Pathway class, a program the league started in 2017 to develop foreign-born athletes while giving teams incentives to take a chance on them. The program hosts 10 weeks of training and a pro day in front of NFL executives before the annual draft, and it allows teams to reserve extra spots on both their training camp rosters and practice squads with international players at no cost against their salary caps. An IPP player can remain on a practice squad for up to three years. <\/p>\n

More than 70 players from the IPP program have gone on to sign with teams, including 11 who have made active rosters, most notably Jordan Mailata, a former rugby player-turned-All Pro offensive lineman with Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Unorthodox backgrounds are the norm in the IPP program, which expanded two years ago to include specialists, including kickers. Yet Matsuzawa might have the unlikeliest path to the NFL of all.<\/p>\n

Football isn\u2019t a foreign concept in Japan. A semiprofessional league, the X League, was founded in 1971. American universities once regularly played Japanese universities in the 1980s and the 1990s. Flag football is regularly practiced in elementary schools, and NFL games air weekly in the country during the regular season and the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Matsuzawa\u2019s father, Tetsuhara, had played quarterback at a Japanese university. But his father left the team after one season over frustration with a lack of opportunity, and he barely spoke of American football for the next 30 years, Matsuzawa said. While he was playing soccer in high school, Matsuzawa knew about only the New England Patriots, Brady and Montana, a favorite player of his father\u2019s. <\/p>\n

Matsuzawa envisioned a future that would keep him in Japan \u2014 college, followed by a career. But when he sat for the country\u2019s rigorous national college entrance exams, he failed. When it happened again, a second time, it was \u201cthe first time, pretty much, that things didn\u2019t go the way I wanted to,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what I want to do in the future. I just hit the rock bottom.\u201d <\/p>\n

He graduated from high school in 2017, but other than a part-time job waiting tables at a Morton\u2019s steakhouse, he rarely felt interested in leaving his family\u2019s home for the next two years. He described himself as content to play video games in his room and spend time with his family. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy family never rushed me, like, \u2018You should do this.\u2019 They never say that,\u201d Matsuzawa said. \u201cBut that two years was really tough to me. I didn\u2019t have energy. I didn\u2019t have a, like, dream purpose of my life. And then my dad hated to see their son struggling in their life. He just gave me the tickets to the United States, to America, and he told me, like, \u2018Just go outside of Japan and see in your eyes what is going on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018I want to do something great in the U.S.\u2019<\/h2>\n

Matsuzawa landed in San Diego in early September 2018 with one backpack and only two things on his itinerary. He had to fly back to Japan out of Los Angeles two weeks later, and he had to watch an NFL game. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an American thing,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can watch soccer, baseball in Japan, but not American football.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matsuzawa had heard of the San Francisco 49ers through his father, but they were out of town to open the 2018 season. He instead made his way to Oakland to watch the Raiders lose, 33-13, in their season opener to the Los Angeles Rams. The game was a high point of a trip that otherwise left Matsuzawa with mixed feelings. Unable to speak English, he likened himself to being as helpless as a baby. It compounded the rudderless feeling he\u2019d experienced after high school in Japan. <\/p>\n

Sitting in the stands and witnessing the spectacle of the Raiders-Rams game, though, sparked inspiration for how he could take control of his life. Some friends and family members thought he was crazy. But it provided a goal for which he could aim.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized this kind of sucks \u2014 once you go outside of Japan, you\u2019re just nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I think, you know, I want to do something great in the U.S. I want to make them realize I can do something in the U.S. by myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Had that inspiration struck Matsuzawa earlier in his life, he probably would have given the more glamorous positions of quarterback or receiver a try, he said. But given his already delayed introduction to football and his background in soccer, placekicking offered the most prudent option. <\/p>\n

Now he just had to learn it. <\/p>\n

On YouTube, Matsuzawa found videos of NFL kickers, including Jason Meyers, now of the Seattle Seahawks, and applied what he learned kicking into a giant net at a public park. For a while, he could kick accurately up to about 15 yards. After about a year at the park and sneaking onto a field with American-style uprights at Kanda University, where some of his friends went to school, Matsuzawa wanted to make his project more serious. He made a 90-minute one-way trek from his home to the office of the Fujitsu Frontiers of the semipro X League and pleaded for a job.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked them, \u2018I\u2019m gonna do whatever you want. Doing filming, like wiping the toilet, or whatever you guys wanted \u2014 and then just after practice, let me use the field,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then that was the deal. And then they say, \u2018Yeah, of course.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n

His time around the Frontiers gave Matsuzawa access to American-style uprights and coaches and players who he said were encouraging. Eventually, coaches invited him to join kicking and weightlifting sessions with the team\u2019s specialists, and it was enough to piece together a highlight reel that he sent, via direct message on Twitter, to dozens of U.S. junior college coaches whose names he\u2019d found online. The reels showed his naturally strong leg and big size, at 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds. But only Hocking College, a community college in the rural, 4,500-person town of Nelsonville, Ohio, agreed.<\/p>\n

Moving to rural Ohio required an adjustment. He watched clips of \u201cFriends\u201d and \u201cStar Wars\u201d to grasp English. To save money, he turned to YouTube again to learn to cook and cut his own hair. If that was trial and error \u2014 he once cut a 3 -inch-long chunk out of the back of his hair \u2014 so was his kicking. Hocking didn\u2019t have an experienced long snapper; the first time Matsuzawa lined up for a real kick in his first game, a moment for which he had waited three years, the snap from a wide receiver flew over his head. <\/p>\n

Matsuzawa made 12 of his 17 kicks during his second season at Hocking, including a 50-yard game winner. He did better at a national kicking showcase, which earned him the attention of the University of Hawaii, a Division I program that could offer him his biggest exposure in front of NFL executives. But his first season at Hawaii, in 2023, was spent as a backup, and in 2024 he went 12-for-16, with a season long of 41 yards. Last summer, he entered the season with some trepidation, because the school had to scramble to find a teammate who knew how to hold for placekicks, but he also returned with his confidence after having worked with a mental coach. <\/p>\n

Over lunch during preseason, Hawaii\u2019s long snapper told Matsuzawa he was about to have a big year and needed to proactively think about a nickname. The snapper tossed out an idea: \u201cthe Tokyo Toe.\u201d <\/p>\n

The world would soon learn it. <\/p>\n

Anonymous to overnight celebrity<\/h2>\n

In last season\u2019s first game, Matsuzawa made three field goals, including a 38-yarder in the final seconds, to beat Stanford. His family watched from the stands. <\/p>\n

\u201cWinning the game, that is the best moment in your life,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is the best feeling you can ever feel.\u201d He felt \u201ca little bit addicted to being successful, and once you feel it you want to feel more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within days, the player who had shown up to the U.S. knowing almost no English was doing interviews with some of the largest media outlets in the U.S. He stayed in the news by making his first 25 field goals last fall, matching the NCAA record for most consecutive makes to begin a season, which had stood for 43 years, and finishing 27-of-29 on the season to earn consensus all-America honors, the first time that had happened in Hawaii\u2019s school history.<\/p>\n

Though he wasn\u2019t selected in April\u2019s seven-round draft, that hasn\u2019t stopped Matsuzawa from becoming one of the most talked-about rookies. The NFL\u2019s Japan-focused Instagram account has fewer than 19,000 followers, yet a post showing video of the moment the Raiders called Matsuzawa to inform him he\u2019d be signed as a free agent has earned more than 100,000 likes. He called being signed by the Raiders, the franchise he watched in his first NFL game, a \u201cfull-circle moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since Matsuzawa began training in Southern California in the winter, Japanese media based in the U.S. have dropped by EBS Performance\u2019s compact training facility, a few miles from the Pacific Ocean, to record segments. Hollywood has shown interest in his backstory. In April, he met Meyers, the kicker after whom he modeled himself. <\/p>\n

\u201cTiming is everything; mental is everything,\u201d said Byrd, a longtime trainer of NFL hopefuls. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of things that have to go into place for something to work, and we are all looking for something that\u2019s different. This is different.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, it\u2019s fun\u201d to vault from anonymity to being a sensation in two countries, Matsuzawa said, yet it isn\u2019t surreal. Believing so strongly he would kick in the NFL led him to expect a breakout moment. It just happened to happen in the last nine months.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time I see my Instagram following is going up, I was like, \u2018Oh, this is amazing; this is so funny,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cBut [I\u2019m] trying to separate myself and what people think or what people say. I kind of knew that was gonna happen to me, because I always say I want to be an NFL player.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is one, for now. Seeing a fellow free agent cut only a few days into rookie minicamp with the Raiders woke up Matsuzawa to the reality that although his place in the international pathway allows for a potentially longer stay on a roster, his spot in the ruthlessly competitive NFL isn\u2019t guaranteed. If nothing else, the past eight years have taught Matsuzawa the power of self-belief. It\u2019s why he talks to himself before every kick.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTell myself, like, \u2018I\u2019m elite,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201c\u2018I make this field goal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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