Kosuke Onose

Left Wingback - Shonan Bellmare
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
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Marked for Kosuke Onose

7 Edition

The Shonan Bellmare Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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.

Match

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 dugout

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 dugout

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 ahead

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 ratings

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

Back issues
4 Edition

The Shonan Bellmare Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cup progress for Shonan Bellmare

A 1‑0 win over Urawa Reds, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

FC Tokyo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Shonan Bellmare did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

Hiroto Yamada scores twice — 8.83

Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets

Kahiser Lenis turns down Shonan Bellmare

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Atlético Goianiense keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

$670.0K settles it between the clubs for George Onaiwu

Yokohama F. Marinos have accepted the money. What Shonan Bellmare do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Player ratings

Fabian Gonzalez, 33, rolls back the years — 7.84

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.84 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 18 in, 1 out at Shonan Bellmare

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Sota Kitano stays at Red Bull Salzburg as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Shonan Bellmare will try again when the window opens; Red Bull Salzburg may not be selling by then.

Squad

Tempers go at Shonan Bellmare

Katsuhiro Nakayama 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.

In brief