Ko Ito

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47 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ko Ito

14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Urawa Reds lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings21 Jun 2027

Nobody could get near Takuro Kaneko

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Shinji Mitoma breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Hirokazu Ishihara 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 Urawa Reds this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Real improvement from Ryusei Sato at Urawa Reds

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ryusei Sato is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Loan watch21 Jun 2027

Toshikazu Teruuchi wants to come home

“I did not go to Nagoya Grampus to sit and watch. I want to come back to Urawa Reds and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
46 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Jun 2027

Ko Ito damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.

Match12 Jun 2027

Urawa Reds run riot against Albirex Niigata

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad14 Jun 2027

A fracture rules Shinji Mitoma out for 40 days

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

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

Ryoma Watanabe scores twice — 8.31

Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market14 Jun 2027

Hirokazu Ishihara raises the bar for Urawa Reds

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Urawa Reds heard it as anything else.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Urawa Reds

Hirokazu Ishihara 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Takuro Kaneko 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.

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

A masterclass from Takuro Kaneko

Marked 8.11 — 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.

Loan watch14 Jun 2027

Daichi Minamino has seen enough of Nagoya Grampus

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Urawa Reds, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

45 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ko Ito

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Urawa Reds lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Shinji Mitoma breaks a bone — 48 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A one-man rearguard from Svetoslav Vutsov

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market7 Jun 2027

Urawa Reds turn down Wellington Phoenix for Ryusei Sato

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market7 Jun 2027

Matheus Savio wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Hirokazu Ishihara 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 Urawa Reds this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief