The Urawa Reds Gazette
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Urawa Reds training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Takuro Kaneko 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Hidemasa Ueda
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Hiroki Abe has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Urawa Reds will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Dec 2026
The Ado Onaiwu story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ado Onaiwu signs something — a contract at Urawa Reds or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Kota Mizunuma has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Kota Mizunuma has written the date down.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Good reports on Kimito Nono
The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.
In brief
- Squad Gaku Morita back in training
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Shun Yoshida at Shonan Bellmare