Reports all across Europe have surfaced this morning that Kawasaki made it official today at the Cologne trade show: Ryan Villopoto has agreed to a deal that will have him racing the FIM World Motocross Championship in 2015. Moto-station.com, a popular French website, filed this report today.

Here is a rough Google translation from the French text:

“This is certainly not a surprise, but it is now official: Ryan Villopoto will start the World Championship Motocross 2015 On the occasion of the exhibition in Cologne , staff Kawasaki used the launch of its highly publicized Ninja H2 to announce to the press the arrival of multiple champion AMA Motocross and Supercross in the Monster Kawasaki KRT next season. A big challenge for Ryan Villopoto is the first great American champion next challenge! This should give more spice to the World MXGP, it is looking forward to the showdown with multiple world champion Antonio Cairoli or with the official Honda HRC Gautier Paulin future ...”

We will have more information as it becomes available.

[Update: 12:00 pm Eastern]

Racer X's Scott Wallenberg in currently in Cologne for the Intermot trade show and stopped by the Kawasaki booth and snapped this photo. He confirmed that Kawasaki did make a verbal announcement that RV is headed to GPs.