Junya Ito

Left Midfielder - Omiya Ardija U18
16 Dec 2027
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Marked for Junya Ito

69 Edition

The Omiya Ardija Chronicle

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Nov 2027

A falling-out at Omiya Ardija

Rikiya Motegi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Omiya Ardija lose Junya Ito

35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market22 Nov 2027

The Hijiri Kato talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Omiya Ardija know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad22 Nov 2027

“I want to play”: Yosuke Murakami speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Shosaku Yasumitsu knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Shosaku Yasumitsu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Keita Fukui has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Keita Fukui has written the date down.

In brief

  • Squad Ko Shimura is training like a man with a point to make
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Ko Shimura
Back issues
30 Edition

The Omiya Ardija Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Feb 2027

86 days out for Toshiki Ishikawa 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.

Match20 Feb 2027

Nowhere to hide for Omiya Ardija

0‑3 against Jubilo Iwata, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match20 Feb 2027

No end in sight to Omiya Ardija's wait for a win

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

Transfer targets22 Feb 2027

Omiya Ardija baulk at the price for Kashif Bangnagande

FC Tokyo wanted more than $2.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Boardroom22 Feb 2027

Omiya Ardija go back to the board over Kashif Bangnagande

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.4M — a club that wants Kashif Bangnagande enough to be asked twice.

Match20 Feb 2027

The goals have deserted Omiya Ardija

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Omiya Ardija can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Omiya Ardija

Yuta Toyokawa 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.

Boardroom22 Feb 2027

5 academy graduates step up at Omiya Ardija

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Player ratings22 Feb 2027

Kazushi Fujii was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief