Fujitsu Frontiers running back Gino Gordon earned a chance to play in Japan and really cherishes the opportunity.

Gordon was born to an American father, Charles, and a Japanese mother, Fujiko, in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture before the family moved back to Southern California when he was 3 years old. He played college football at Harvard University and graduated in 2011.

"I was really, really interested," Gordon, 24, said of his own reaction when he first learned of the possibility of coming to Japan to play football. "I really wanted to continue playing football. I really wanted to play at a high level."