Erik

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Vissel Kobe
11 Oct 2026
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Marked for Erik

9 Edition

The Vissel Kobe Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Up for the corner, and Tetsushi Yamakawa delivers — 7.54

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Tetsushi Yamakawa scored, was marked 7.54, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Gotoku Sakai in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vissel Kobe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Rikuto Hirose falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Erik 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 ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Daiju Sasaki

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match26 Sep 2026

Vissel Kobe and Kawasaki Frontale take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

  • Player ratings Yuya Osako leaves them behind him
  • Squad Alfonso Blanco dropped after a run of poor form
  • Player ratings Erik could have had three
Back issues
6 Edition

The Vissel Kobe Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match5 Sep 2026

7 matches without a win for Vissel Kobe

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Vissel Kobe are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Vissel Kobe training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gotoku Sakai is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Takashi Inui

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Tetsushi Yamakawa was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Yosuke Ideguchi

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Vissel Kobe

Nanasei Iino was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Sota Ito named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Sota Ito is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Match5 Sep 2026

Honours even between Vissel Kobe and Gamba Osaka

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Erik leaves them behind him

Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

3 Edition

The Vissel Kobe Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

Gotoku Sakai in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vissel Kobe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Yoshinori Muto

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yoshinori Muto, and the manager let it.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Yuta Goke runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Rikuto Hirose falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Alfonso Blanco dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Erik could have had three

4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief