Tomoya Ando

Central Defender - St. Pauli
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Tomoya Ando

17 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The cup run ends for St. Pauli

0‑1 against Hamburger SV, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

The wait goes on for St. Pauli

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

The goals have deserted St. Pauli

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at St. Pauli can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Karol Mets 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 St. Pauli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Tomoya Ando 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.

Squad

Antonio Marín wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at St. Pauli can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Words at St. Pauli training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathias Rasmussen 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 dugout

Eric Smith asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings

Martijn Kaars 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.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

37 days out for Markus Seidel after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. St. Pauli will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Pauli

Eric Smith and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Marwin Schmitz signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marwin Schmitz commits to St. Pauli for another 5 years.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Pauli

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

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Karl Dietrich on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

No hiding place for Rony Jansson

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

Match

No goals between St. Pauli and Union Berlin

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Union Berlin will be the happier side with the point.

Market

The Martijn Kaars question follows St. Pauli around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martijn Kaars’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

Abdoulie Ceesay keeps on missing

Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief