Ko Ito

Right Midfielder - Kashiwa Reysol U18
19 Aug 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ko Ito

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The Kashiwa Reysol Chronicle

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Ko Ito out for 20 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kashiwa Reysol will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

No end in sight to Kashiwa Reysol's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kashiwa Reysol has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Kashiwa Reysol

Yusuke Segawa 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Kashiwa Reysol against Sanfrecce Hiroshima

0‑1 to Sanfrecce Hiroshima, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Ousmane Diabaté stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ousmane Diabaté and Kashiwa Reysol agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Seiya Baba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Seiya Baba, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Takehiro Morita: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Market

No place for Kenta Matsuyama in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kenta Matsuyama has his answer from Kashiwa Reysol; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Kosuke Kinoshita has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kashiwa Reysol will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief