The Shonan Bellmare Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
Takumi Nagaishi keeps Shonan Bellmare in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Shonan Bellmare training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sere Matsumura 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
A promise honoured at Shonan Bellmare
Something was said to Shusuke Ota and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Yudai Tanaka
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Match12 Sep 2026
Shonan Bellmare and Kawasaki Frontale take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Gaku Haraguchi was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Shonan Bellmare dressing room was either.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Fabian Gonzalez gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Fabian Gonzalez is on it.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Shusuke Ota faces his old club
Albirex Niigata next, and one man in the Shonan Bellmare dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Half an hour was enough for Tomoya Fujii
He came on with the match going nowhere and left it settled. Shonan Bellmare had the right man on the bench, and for once the timing was right too.
In brief
- Squad Yuto Suzuki has taken the shirt
- Squad Yuto Suzuki says his piece
- Player ratings Kosuke Onose was unplayable