The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima sign Benjamín Ilama for $1.4M
The paperwork is done: Benjamín Ilama joins from Uruguay Montevideo in a deal worth $1.4M. Now comes the harder part.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima turn down Avispa Fukuoka for Kosuke Kinoshita
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Keisuke Osako 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 Sanfrecce Hiroshima this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tsukasa Morishima signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tsukasa Morishima commits to Sanfrecce Hiroshima for another 3 years.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ryo Germain runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Sho Sasaki
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sanfrecce Hiroshima, another week without a signature from Sho Sasaki.
Squad10 Aug 2026
11 new faces, and Sanfrecce Hiroshima are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sanfrecce Hiroshima buy the years ahead of Junya Inoue
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Shuto Nakano
7.33, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sanfrecce Hiroshima had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Match No goals between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Kawasaki Frontale
- Squad Benjamín Ilama banks a contract that will last him