Lee Min Ki

Goalkeeper - Ventforet Kofu
2 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Lee Min Ki

10 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kohei Kawata

123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventforet Kofu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Lee Min Ki

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kohei Kawata

153 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ventforet Kofu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

7 matches without a win for Ventforet Kofu

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Ventforet Kofu are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kotatsu Kumakura

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventforet Kofu

Kotatsu Kumakura 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Ventforet Kofu

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match

A bad afternoon for Ventforet Kofu against Vegalta Sendai

0‑2 to Vegalta Sendai, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jonathan Zacaría

“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.

Squad

Costly mistake from Lee Min Ki

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Lee Min Ki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Keisuke Sato

A mark of 5.59 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief