Soma Anzai

Right Midfielder - FC Tokyo
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Soma Anzai

4 Edition

The FC Tokyo Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Aug 2026

FC Tokyo bow out of the cup

Sanfrecce Hiroshima go through and FC Tokyo go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market24 Aug 2026

Kashiwa Reysol watching Teruhito Nakagawa

The interest is real enough to have reached print. FC Tokyo have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market24 Aug 2026

So close: Leon Nozawa’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Ventforet Kofu moved on, Leon Nozawa reports back to FC Tokyo, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at FC Tokyo

Kota Tawaratsumida 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Keigo Higashi ran the middle of the pitch — 7.17

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 15 combined actions and a mark of 7.17, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at FC Tokyo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Soma Anzai 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

FC Tokyo get the job done against Ventforet Kofu

A 2‑0 win over Ventforet Kofu, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Leon Nozawa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Bruno Bianchi

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

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The FC Tokyo Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad17 Aug 2026

Kim Seung Gyu keeps FC Tokyo in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Both of them Marcelo Ryan's — 8.73

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Alexander Scholz yet — 8.07

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match15 Aug 2026

FC Tokyo cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Kota Tawaratsumida 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 FC Tokyo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa goes

Yokohama F. Marinos paid $650.0K and FC Tokyo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Match15 Aug 2026

FC Tokyo see off Gamba Osaka

Three points for FC Tokyo, 4‑3 the final word against Gamba Osaka in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Teruhito Nakagawa out for 18 days

The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Teruhito Nakagawa, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match15 Aug 2026

7 goals as FC Tokyo and Gamba Osaka go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between FC Tokyo and Gamba Osaka, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief

2 Edition

The FC Tokyo Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Alexander Scholz, 33, rolls back the years — 8.26

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.26 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Kota Tawaratsumida 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 FC Tokyo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Kein Sato

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

The terraces10 Aug 2026

FC Tokyo supporters have found a favourite in Soma Anzai

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Soma Anzai has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match8 Aug 2026

FC Tokyo find a way past Kashima Antlers

Kashima Antlers made FC Tokyo work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market10 Aug 2026

Still no ink between FC Tokyo and Kein Sato

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at FC Tokyo, another week without a signature from Kein Sato.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Kein Sato 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Nicolai Vallys's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Soma Anzai 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 FC Tokyo, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief