Amos Ofori

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Yokohama F. Marinos
31 Dec 2028
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Marked for Amos Ofori

105 Edition

The Yokohama F. Marinos Courier

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match29 Jul 2028

23 unbeaten for Yokohama F. Marinos

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 23 matches without defeat is a foundation Yokohama F. Marinos did not have in the autumn.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Taiki Watanabe breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match26 Jul 2028

The cup run ends for Yokohama F. Marinos

1‑1 against Nagoya Grampus, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Rubén Blanco keeps Yokohama F. Marinos in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market31 Jul 2028

Yokohama F. Marinos say no — this time

The offer from Irtysh for Gaku Nawata was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market31 Jul 2028

Yokohama F. Marinos get their man

The chase for Darío Rostagno ended with $2.7M changing hands and Kashima Antlers out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Match29 Jul 2028

The run at home goes on for Yokohama F. Marinos

12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match29 Jul 2028

4 matches without a win for Yokohama F. Marinos

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Yokohama F. Marinos are no longer polite ones.

Squad31 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Yokohama F. Marinos

Rubén Blanco 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.

In brief

Back issues
66 Edition

The Yokohama F. Marinos Courier

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 Nov 2027

Riku Yamane raises the bar for Yokohama F. Marinos

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

Market1 Nov 2027

Yokohama F. Marinos may not be able to give Petar Ratkov what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Petar Ratkov wants continental football; whether Yokohama F. Marinos can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Loan watch1 Nov 2027

Taiki Watanabe: I did not sign for Yokohama F. Marinos to play for other people

“Every summer it is another club, another set of team-mates, another manager to convince. I have done all that. Now I want a pre-season at Yokohama F. Marinos and a proper look at me.” He remains Nagoya Grampus’s player until the spell runs out — but the argument is with the club that owns him.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Yokohama F. Marinos

Rubén Blanco 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.

Squad1 Nov 2027

When it matters, Daiya Tono plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Amos Ofori 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

59 Edition

The Yokohama F. Marinos Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

A brace, and Daiya Tono takes the afternoon — 8.27

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Daiya Tono provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Amos Ofori keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Yokohama F. Marinos may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market13 Sep 2027

Jan Kuchta wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Yokohama F. Marinos hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Riku Yamane signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Riku Yamane and Yokohama F. Marinos agree another 5 years.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Rubén Blanco 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 Yokohama F. Marinos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Sep 2027

A late step up for Petar Ratkov

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Match11 Sep 2027

Yokohama F. Marinos get the job done against Shonan Bellmare

A 2‑0 win over Shonan Bellmare, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nothing got past Jeisson Quinones

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nothing got past Kota Watanabe

14 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief