The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Kawasaki Frontale
Yasuto Wakizaka 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Kawasaki Frontale get the job done against Kashiwa Reysol
A 1‑0 win over Kashiwa Reysol, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Tatsuya Ito in the eights
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Kawasaki Frontale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Derik Lacerda 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
A satisfied Hidemasa Kubo
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Hidemasa Kubo could afford to be generous.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kazuya Konno beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Marcinho does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Market17 Aug 2026
The Yuki Yamamoto talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kawasaki Frontale know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Everton Galdino
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Kawasaki Frontale has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Shunsuke Ando in it
- Squad Kazuya Konno says his piece
- The dugout A weekend off for Erison