Really happy to see Sota Kitano | #北野颯太 get his full Japan National Team debut today! 👍👍

Nice to see The Asian Game covering anti-Asian racism, an issue often overlooked most of the time unfortunately. Quite a personal one for me as well having played/lived in Europe (across different levels & just for fun too of course) www.theasiangame.net/tag-podcast-...

What a pass by Junnosuke Suzuki 🤯

Keisuke Gotō and Sota Kitano get their debuts! Andō also comes on and J. Suzuki goes to LWB

Dodododoan 2-0! Snuck in to the near corner

🇯🇵 1-0 🇬🇭 HT: Adequate (but not good tbh) so far vs an under strength 🇬🇭 team. Some concerns with sloppy passes but done fairly well to limited their counters tbf. Ueda not good today. Junnosuke Suzuki great. Kubo’s passes been a beat or two off everybody elses wavelength

Minaminoooo 🇯🇵 1-0 🇬🇭

Starting XI for JAPAN 🇯🇵 vs. Ghana 🇬🇭 - As reported, as close as possible to the line-up that started vs. Brazil - Minamino with the captain's armband again 🫡 - As Moriyasu stated yesterday, Hayakawa is the main GK candidate at the moment #daihyo

Al-Hamadi! Iraq take the lead off a set-piece!

well.. there goes like 85% of the data viz I use for my #JLeague season reviews 😭😭😭 it's extremely difficult to find non-paid detailed data for the J.League and now things have gotten EVEN HARDER 🙃

Kinda a pain in the ass when most #JLeague news is on the other site and i have to keep screenshotting stuff over Got a backlog of tweets i havent made here yet …🙄

The #JLeague is touting a massive achievement tonight: the 2025 season has already set a new record for total annual attendance across the league, with two rounds remaining in the J1 and J2 as well as three remaining in the J3. Seems very likely that the J1 will break last year's overall count...

Yet another big knee injury (MCL I think?). Yuto Yamada was having such a good season too... www.reysol.co.jp/news/topteam...

🙂Excited to see Yudai Shimamoto get another #JLeague start for S-Pulse 🙃Find out he got subbed off at the 28th minute alongside Sen Takagi as Cerezo blitzed them to take a 2-0 lead...

Yoyo-kohama FC:

Well, at least Kein Sato is hitting form in the past month or so. Lovely assist!

It's official: Zion Suzuki (hand injury) out, replacement TBD for now. No Keisuke Osako either so it's going to be a battle royale for the GK spot this window! Maybe Taishi Nozawa given he's finally gotten starts recently or a #JLeague GK for expediency? #daihyo www.jfa.jp/national_tea...

Luis Diaz good lord

Jon in Japan:

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

lol you’re telling me FC Basel got another guy named Salah (moroccan tho) and having Shaq dish out assists to him 😂

📩 Mailbag #1.1: "How Korea's youth football system differs from Japan's (and more)" Continuing our look into 🇰🇷's youth development: 💬 Chat with @rbyryo.bsky.social on 🇯🇵 ⚽ On Hong Myung-bo & the potential MLS pathway Read below 👇

Japan National Team 🇯🇵⚽️ squad for November friendlies vs. Ghana 🇬🇭 & Bolivia 🇧🇴! - FIRST call-ups for: Keisuke Goto, Leo Kokubo, Sota Kitano! 👀 - Several players missing due to Emperor's Cup commitments (Osako, Mochizuki, Nagatomo, etc.) #daihyo

Hmm not quite sure about this tbh Well, I suppose I'll wait & see how it looks when you actually wear it (JFA account just officially announced this btw)

hmm interesting, this is most likely the first time ever TWO Japanese goalkeepers faced off against each other in Europe

Set Piece FC (Sanfrecce) take the lead! Long throw-in and Araki outjumps Kojima to smash a header into the net!!

The #JLeague Levain Cup final: Kashiwa Reysol 🌞 vs. Sanfrecce Hiroshima 🏹! Available outside of Japan (in most countries) via Youtube stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUta...

Another update to the fall-spring transition plans (h/t @rbyryo.bsky.social) - of the ¥10.8 billion the league has set aside for the transition, ¥5 billion ($32.9m) will be used as subsidies for northern clubs to buy cold-weather equipment such as air domes, heating systems and pitch covers.

🆕 Shogun Soccer Scouting 🇯🇵⚽️🔍! #16: YOTARO NAKAJIMA | #中島洋太朗 🏹 - Well-timed movements, understanding of space 🧠 - Great passing technique across all ranges 📏 - Some concerns over physical/defensive aspects 🤔 LINK 🔗: www.shogunsoccer.com/p/shogun-soc... #JLeague #sanfrecce

Missed today’s #JLeague board presser because I’m working on a [redacted] feature but the league announced dates for the 2026-27 season: August 8-9 - opening weekend (J1/J2/J3) May 22-23 - J2/J3 last round June 5-6 - J1 last round May 29-30, June 5-6 - promotion playoffs, J3/JFL pro-rel series

Both Tatsuhiro Sakamoto & Junya Ito are players I wish were like 5 years younger right now www.soccerdigestweb.com/news/detail/...

Alright, this is coming out TOMORROW (October 28)! Yotaro Nakajima | #中島洋太朗 🏹 #JLeague #sanfrecce

What a save Szczesny 😳

Coming soon (in the next few days)! 🇯🇵⚽️🔍 Shogun Soccer Scouting 1️⃣6️⃣: YOTARO NAKAJIMA | #中島洋太朗 🏹! #JLeague #sanfrecce

Yep it had to be him. Yuya Osako scores off a set piece! Kobe lead 1-0 to keep themselves alive in the #JLeague title race!

Mateus struck down with an ACL injury... (there's been so many this year 😬)

Coming soon (in the next few days)! 🇯🇵⚽️🔍 Shogun Soccer Scouting 1️⃣6️⃣: YOTARO NAKAJIMA | #中島洋太朗 🏹! #JLeague #sanfrecce

Kashima equalize in the 96th minute!! Heartbreak for Kyoto 🫣

Kyoto take the lead! 1-0 Nagasawa nutmegs Yuma Suzuki with a pass into the box for Tulio

Another big game in the title race! 3rd place Kyoto Sanga take on league leaders Kashima Antlers. 5 point gap, can they cut it to make the final weeks interesting?? Official #JLeague livestream (available in countries without a streaming partner): www.youtube.com/live/tmbKfCy... #Footy-Live

... he's been back for two weeks now, why isn't Pisano starting?

Interesting discussion from Glasner on Premier League adaptation >> using Daichi Kamada as an example

In a similar vein, I'm always surprised that the PGPL 🇮🇷 is only 16 teams (I know they reduced it from 18 a decade ago) and the K.League 🇰🇷 is only 12 teams (demographics aside...) (I think #JLeague with 20 teams is too much, look at the fixture congestion in recent years...)

Oh wow, FC Tokyo's Maki Kitahara called up for the U-17 World Cup! (replacing the injured Daichi Tani) www.jfa.jp/national_tea...

I need people to see what transpired lol I have never seen someone just charge at the opposing team free kick wall here like Rwan Cruz does to the Portland Timbers

Yotaro Nakajima wins the "New Hero Award" for his performances in the Levain #JLeague Cup! Hopefully he can recover back in time for the final 🤞 (I'll be writing up a scouting report on him in the next week or so 👀)

Seigo Suetani (Kyoto Sangyo University) apparently headed to Djurgårdens 🇸🇪 for a >>trial<< www.sponichi.co.jp/soccer/news/...

Keito Kumashiro with a thigh muscle strain, out for a few weeks. Not the same places as before but a bit worried that he keeps getting injured. roasso-k.com/news/8346