The Jubilo Iwata Chronicle
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Jubilo Iwata
Kosuke Nakamura 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Rikiya Uehara 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Koki Ogawa linked with a move away
The name of Koki Ogawa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Jubilo Iwata say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Kenta Nemoto knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kenta Nemoto trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Ryoga Sato has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ryoga Sato has written the date down.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Good reports on Yuri Lara
The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Poramet Arjvirai
- Squad Sora Masuda is out on the grass again
- Loan watch Naoki Kawaguchi's loan at Jubilo Iwata nearly up