The Shonan Bellmare Gazette
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Shonan Bellmare
Yuto Suzuki 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Tomoya Fujii
“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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Wakaba Shimoguchi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Shonan Bellmare will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market23 Nov 2026
The Yuto Suzuki question follows Shonan Bellmare around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yuto Suzuki’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Wakaba Shimoguchi has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Wakaba Shimoguchi has written the date down.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Naoki Kase knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shonan Bellmare, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad Yuto Suzuki is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Welcome back, Wataru Tomiyasu