Soma Kanda

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Marked for Soma Kanda

8 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad21 Sep 2026

Yu Kobayashi breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Jesiel 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 Kawasaki Frontale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

One of those days for Yasuto Wakizaka

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad21 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Tatsuya Ito

“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 terraces21 Sep 2026

Kawasaki Frontale supporters have found a favourite in Soma Kanda

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Soma Kanda 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nothing got past Jesiel

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Hiroto Taniguchi shuts the door

Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match19 Sep 2026

Kawasaki Frontale get the job done against Vegalta Sendai

A 1‑0 win over Vegalta Sendai, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad21 Sep 2026

So Kawahara 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.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match26 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale bow out of the cup

Sanfrecce Hiroshima go through and Kawasaki Frontale go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Soma Kanda at 20 — 7.82

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Soma Kanda did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tatsuya Ito 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 Kawasaki Frontale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Svend Brodersen

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

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Tatsuya Ito was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.02. 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale pick somebody else ahead of Louis Yamaguchi

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tatsuya Ito has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kawasaki Frontale 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale share the spoils with Shonan Bellmare

A 1‑1 draw with Shonan Bellmare leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

The chances came and went for Erison

6 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief

4 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Aug 2026

Lazar Romanic sends Kawasaki Frontale through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Lazar Romanic obliged against Albirex Niigata. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Kawasaki Frontale.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Soma Kanda, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76

A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Kawasaki Frontale

Tatsuya Ito 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.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale supporters have found a favourite in Soma Kanda

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Soma Kanda 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Lazar Romanic

Marked 8.67 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match22 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale get the job done against Jubilo Iwata

A 1‑0 win over Jubilo Iwata, 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

Nothing got past Kento Tachibanada

19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Filip Uremovic

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

Louis Yamaguchi has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kawasaki Frontale 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tatsuya Ito 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 Kawasaki Frontale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match15 Aug 2026

Kashiwa Reysol take the points off Kawasaki Frontale

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad17 Aug 2026

André Dias signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” André Dias commits to Kawasaki Frontale for another 1 years.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale pick somebody else ahead of Louis Yamaguchi

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Kento Tachibanada 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 ratings17 Aug 2026

Soma Kanda keeps on missing

Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Market17 Aug 2026

No place for Shunsuke Ando in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Shunsuke Ando has his answer from Kawasaki Frontale; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market17 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale bring in an old head

Giovanni is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Tatsuya Ito

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

1 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market3 Aug 2026

Yasuto Wakizaka wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Kawasaki Frontale hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Yasuto Wakizaka signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yasuto Wakizaka commits to Kawasaki Frontale for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Kawasaki Frontale

Tatsuya Ito 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Erison wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market3 Aug 2026

Yuto Ozeki attracts admirers

The name of Yuto Ozeki has come up in conversations Kawasaki Frontale were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Soma Kanda 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.

In brief