The Sanfrecce Hiroshima Gazette
Squad25 Sep 2034
Tatsuki Seko damages knee ligaments — 131 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 131 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match23 Sep 2034
The run at home goes on for Sanfrecce Hiroshima
13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match23 Sep 2034
Sanfrecce Hiroshima make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Sanfrecce Hiroshima have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad25 Sep 2034
Oliver Herrmann keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sanfrecce Hiroshima may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad25 Sep 2034
Tempers go at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Tatsuki Seko 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.
Squad25 Sep 2034
Words at Sanfrecce Hiroshima training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sota Nakamura is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match23 Sep 2034
Sanfrecce Hiroshima find a way past Shonan Bellmare
Shonan Bellmare made Sanfrecce Hiroshima work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings25 Sep 2034
Ninety minutes of Ryunosuke Sagara at his very best
Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
Player ratings25 Sep 2034
A masterclass from Sota Nakamura
Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Boardroom 94% of the income goes out in wages at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
- Player ratings Shinji Ito runs at them all day
- Market The Keisuke Osako question follows Sanfrecce Hiroshima around