Koki Oshima

Central Midfielder - Ventforet Kofu
13 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Koki Oshima

10 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

11 matches without a win for Ventforet Kofu

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Ventforet Kofu are no longer polite ones.

Match

A hiding for Ventforet Kofu

Beaten 0‑3 by Kashima Antlers, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Miki Inoue puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ventforet Kofu, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Koki Oshima says Ventforet Kofu went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Ventforet Kofu

Kotatsu Kumakura 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.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Darvin Chávez for 17 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Ventforet Kofu will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

No hiding place for Kotatsu Kumakura

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kotatsu Kumakura, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Ventforet Kofu dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Yudai Tanaka

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Ventforet Kofu

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Kotatsu Kumakura 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 Ventforet Kofu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Michele Staccioli gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Ventforet Kofu and Omiya Ardija 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kotatsu Kumakura

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Ventforet Kofu pick somebody else ahead of Luis Pérez

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief