Keisuke Sato

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9 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match26 Sep 2026

A hiding for Ventforet Kofu

Beaten 0‑4 by Nagoya Grampus, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match26 Sep 2026

Ventforet Kofu leaking at the back

6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match26 Sep 2026

No end in sight to Ventforet Kofu's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ventforet Kofu has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Ventforet Kofu

Sho Araki 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Kotatsu Kumakura 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Takumi Tsuchiya

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

Boardroom28 Sep 2026

Inquest at Ventforet Kofu

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Ventforet Kofu pick somebody else ahead of Darvin Chávez

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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Iwana Kobayashi could not find anything

5.33. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

Sho Araki 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 Ventforet Kofu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match22 Aug 2026

Yudai Tanaka’s goal not enough for Ventforet Kofu

Yudai Tanaka scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to FC Tokyo, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Renato Augusto

“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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Ventforet Kofu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yuta Koide 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Yudai Tanaka

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Darvin Chávez 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