Ko Ueda

Central Defender - Nagoya Grampus U18
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Marked for Ko Ueda

114 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

Nobody could get near Ten Miyagi

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

Sho Inagaki: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nagoya Grampus have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Mateus Castro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mateus Castro commits to Nagoya Grampus for another 2 years.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Nagoya Grampus

Yohei Takaoka 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.

Squad2 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Nagoya Grampus

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateus Castro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

Ryuji Izumi left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ryuji Izumi will call it something else in private.

Match30 Sep 2028

Ventforet Kofu snatch it back from Nagoya Grampus

A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Market2 Oct 2028

Nagoya Grampus and Ten Miyagi are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

Ryuji Izumi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
82 Edition

The Nagoya Grampus Sentinel

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market21 Feb 2028

Nagoya Grampus say no — this time

The offer from Kawasaki Frontale for Alex Kouto Horio Pisano was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets21 Feb 2028

Junior Arias due for a Nagoya Grampus medical

Everything agreed with Penarol, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets21 Feb 2028

No thanks: Alex Bruno rejects the move

Nagoya Grampus had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Plaza Colonia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad21 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Nagoya Grampus

Yohei Takaoka and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom21 Feb 2028

5 academy graduates step up at Nagoya Grampus

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.

Squad21 Feb 2028

Mateus Castro 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.

Transfer targets21 Feb 2028

Door shut on Sékou Gassama

Nagoya Grampus asked and Universitario said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market21 Feb 2028

Akira Haraguchi steps up from the Nagoya Grampus academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Akira Haraguchi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market21 Feb 2028

One of our own: Ko Ueda joins the Nagoya Grampus first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ko Ueda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief