Hussein Mido

Striker - Kashiwa Reysol
2 Nov 2031
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Marked for Hussein Mido

269 Edition

The Kashiwa Reysol Chronicle

22 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match22 Sep 2031

Kashiwa Reysol up to position 1

63 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match20 Sep 2031

Whatever happens, Kashiwa Reysol do not lose

13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Kota Tawaratsumida is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.73 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Hussein Mido: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kashiwa Reysol have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Tempers go at Kashiwa Reysol

Kota Tawaratsumida 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.

Player ratings22 Sep 2031

Nobuteru Nakagawa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match20 Sep 2031

Kashiwa Reysol make home a hard place to visit

10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Taiyo Koga 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.

Player ratings22 Sep 2031

A masterclass from Kota Tawaratsumida

Marked 9.04 — 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.

In brief

Back issues
253 Edition

The Kashiwa Reysol Chronicle

2 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match2 Jun 2031

Kashiwa Reysol refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match31 May 2031

No mercy from Kashiwa Reysol

Shonan Bellmare will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Kashiwa Reysol were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Match28 May 2031

Kashiwa Reysol out of the cup

Ventforet Kofu ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Abdulelah Al-Amri says Kashiwa Reysol went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Hayato Tanaka has been here 8 seasons

180 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Player ratings2 Jun 2031

A chastening introduction for Genki Yamane — 5.78

It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.78 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Kota Tawaratsumida 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 Kashiwa Reysol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market2 Jun 2031

Nobuteru Nakagawa wants more than Kashiwa Reysol are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad2 Jun 2031

Kota Tawaratsumida 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

201 Edition

The Kashiwa Reysol Chronicle

3 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Jun 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Wataru Osako

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

Match29 May 2030

Kashiwa Reysol through in the cup

A 3‑0 win over Vegalta Sendai, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match1 Jun 2030

Kashiwa Reysol tear Shonan Bellmare apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Shonan Bellmare, and it could have been more.

Player ratings3 Jun 2030

Kota Tawaratsumida runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match3 Jun 2030

Kashiwa Reysol refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 26 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings3 Jun 2030

Mileta Rajović scores twice — 8.62

Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings3 Jun 2030

Hussein Mido scores twice — 8.20

Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings3 Jun 2030

Koya Yuruki, 34, rolls back the years — 8.38

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.38 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market3 Jun 2030

Kota Tawaratsumida raises the bar for Kashiwa Reysol

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Kashiwa Reysol heard it as anything else.

In brief

182 Edition

The Zamalek Chronicle

21 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Match21 Jan 2030

Zamalek refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 40 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad21 Jan 2030

Tempers go at Zamalek

Juan Bezerra 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 Jan 2030

Words at Zamalek training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Partey 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.

Market21 Jan 2030

Masr El Makasa join the queue for Ahmed Jafeli

Add another name to the list: Masr El Makasa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ahmed Jafeli. The answer from Zamalek has not changed — yet.

Player ratings21 Jan 2030

Nobody could get near Riyad Mahrez

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Jan 2030

Ahmed Sabeha signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmed Sabeha and Zamalek agree another 3 years.

Squad21 Jan 2030

The manager has not finished forgetting Mahmoud El Wensh's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market21 Jan 2030

ES Setif expected to open talks for Hussein Mido

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Zamalek will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match19 Jan 2030

Emmanuel Nweke rescues a point for Zamalek

It needed Emmanuel Nweke to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Police Union, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief