The Omiya Ardija Chronicle
Squad16 Nov 2026
79 days out for Rikiya Motegi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Omiya Ardija will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Takashi Kasahara: 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.” Omiya Ardija have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Omiya Ardija
Yuta Toyokawa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Hélder Maurílio 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Toya Izumi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Toya Izumi, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
When it matters, Kenyu Sugimoto 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.
In brief
- The dugout Takuya Wada knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Thomas Glover question follows Omiya Ardija around
- Squad Junya Ueda is out on the grass again