The Vissel Kobe Gazette
Match1 Aug 2026
Vissel Kobe run riot against Vegalta Sendai
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market3 Aug 2026
Yokohama F. Marinos come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Vissel Kobe did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A day Yoshinori Muto will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Yoshinori Muto, 34, rolls back the years — 9.90
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.90 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Daiju Sasaki: 11 seasons and counting
167 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Vissel Kobe know exactly what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
Yoshinori Muto wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Vissel Kobe hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gotoku Sakai signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gotoku Sakai and Vissel Kobe agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vissel Kobe
Gotoku Sakai and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Daiju Sasaki was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.99. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Market Eyes on Caetano again
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Yosuke Ideguchi at his very best
- Market Still no ink between Vissel Kobe and Gotoku Sakai