Elber

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Kashima Antlers
22 Sep 2026
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Marked for Elber

8 Edition

The Kashima Antlers Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Leo Ceara scores twice — 9.62

Two goals and a mark of 9.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Kashima Antlers

Naomichi Ueda and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad21 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Kashima Antlers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksandar Cavric was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match19 Sep 2026

Kashima Antlers find a way past Avispa Fukuoka

Avispa Fukuoka made Kashima Antlers work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Aleksandar Cavric at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kashima Antlers.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Elber gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Yuma Suzuki runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Nagatomo Furuhashi has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Nagatomo Furuhashi on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

When it matters, Rikuto Hirose plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Kashima Antlers Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Sep 2026

Yuma Suzuki puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kashima Antlers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Kashima Antlers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Koki Machida was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Rikuto Hirose beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match12 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Kashima Antlers against Nagoya Grampus

1‑2 to Nagoya Grampus, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Kashima Antlers are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Nagatomo Furuhashi to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Yuma Suzuki gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Yuma Suzuki is on it.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The form table has caught Koki Anzai

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Market14 Sep 2026

The Naomichi Ueda story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Naomichi Ueda signs something — a contract at Kashima Antlers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief