Hiroki Abe

Left Midfielder - Urawa Reds
31 Oct 2026
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5 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Thiago Santana scores twice — 8.50

Two goals and a mark of 8.50 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Takuro Kaneko 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 Urawa Reds this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match29 Aug 2026

Urawa Reds find a way past Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus made Urawa Reds work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Matheus Savio 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Urawa Reds are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

The spotlight tightens on Thiago Santana

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Thiago Santana is off the mark for Urawa Reds

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

An afternoon Marko Soldo will want back

Marked 5.79. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Market31 Aug 2026

Sota Koshimichi arrives on loan

Urawa Reds have taken Sota Koshimichi on loan from Sanfrecce Hiroshima — cover where cover was needed.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Takuro Kaneko
  • Market The window shut and Hiroki Abe is still in the building
Back issues
3 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Urawa Reds

Hirokazu Ishihara 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Vissel Kobe take the points off Urawa Reds

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Matheus Savio runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Takuro Kaneko 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Urawa Reds training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ado Onaiwu 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Shusaku Nishikawa left out for tactical reasons at Urawa Reds

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

1 Edition

The Urawa Reds Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad3 Aug 2026

Shusaku Nishikawa has been here 11 seasons

625 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market3 Aug 2026

Hirokazu Ishihara wants more than Urawa Reds are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market3 Aug 2026

Matheus Savio wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Matheus Savio signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matheus Savio and Urawa Reds agree another 5 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Matheus Savio 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 Urawa Reds this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Sai Van Wermeskerken would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Sai Van Wermeskerken is living that version at Urawa Reds, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Ado Onaiwu at his very best

Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Urawa Reds.

Match1 Aug 2026

Urawa Reds see off Omiya Ardija

Three points for Urawa Reds, 1‑0 the final word against Omiya Ardija in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ryoma Watanabe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief