The Avispa Fukuoka Herald
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kohei Okuno stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kohei Okuno and Avispa Fukuoka agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tomoya Miki 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 Avispa Fukuoka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yota Maejima falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match1 Aug 2026
Avispa Fukuoka find a way past Albirex Niigata
Albirex Niigata made Avispa Fukuoka work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Shosei Usui was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.36. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Masato Yuzawa 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Avispa Fukuoka and Masaya Tashiro are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Yu Hashimoto
Still no offer on the table, and Yu Hashimoto’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Kaoru Yamawaki told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kaoru Yamawaki has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Avispa Fukuoka.
In brief
- Market Experience through the door at Avispa Fukuoka
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Kazuki Fujimoto
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Shosei Usui