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J.League Scouting & 🇯🇵 ⚽️ ✍🏼 @ "Shogun Soccer" newsletter! (#LFC, #FCTokyo | 💻🛠️ #rstats | Ex ⚽️ @ 11tegen11)
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1⃣3⃣: KOTA TAKAI | #高井幸大 !

LINK 🔗: www.shogunsoccer.com/p/shogun-soc...

- Physically imposing 💪 but some issues with speed & turning agility ↪️
- Very good ball progression through passes & carries ✅

#Spurs #THFC #COYS #JLeague
Shogun Soccer Scouting #13: Kota Takai
Big prospect but can he make the big leap to the Premier League?
www.shogunsoccer.com
Hiromu Kamada | #鎌田大夢. If Vegalta Sendai don't get promoted this #JLeague season, lots of J1 teams should be going after him.

Good player.
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
OK, this is interesting... 👀

🇯🇵 🇰🇷 2002 vibes? roll it backk
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Gaku Nawata starting!?
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reposted by ⚽️ Ryo 📊
oh boy now I'm on the spot.

I think your candidate pool is, more or less, Oliveira, Nishino, Oniki, Mischa, Moriyasu, Okada, and I think an argument could be made for Nelsinho Baptista as well.

Mischa has the fewest trophies, but at the same time I feel like he created such a strong culture...
November 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I know I'll sound like an annoying hipster when I say this but I've honestly enjoyed a lot of J2 over J1 in this #JLeague season... 😶
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A mixed record, sure, but Dani Poyatos clearly made his mark on the team & changed their play-style. I also feel he got shafted by their recruitment team at various times. It'll be interesting to see if he gets another job in the #JLeague.

www.gamba-osaka.net/news/index/n...
ダニエル ポヤトス監督 2025シーズン限りで契約満了のお知らせ
このたび、ダニエル ポヤトス監督が契約満了に伴い、2025シーズン限りで退任することとなりましたので、お知らせいたします。なお、ポヤトス監督コメントにつきましては2025シーズン終了後に改めて掲載いた
www.gamba-osaka.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Watching some Consadole Sapporo highlights... I knew Tomoki Takamine has been on a tear & a big reason why Sapporo aren't fighting relegation or anything but the quality of goals he's booting into the net is absurd.

Check his two vs. Kataller Toyama 😳
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
the amount of injuries FC Tokyo has had over the past few years (and especially this season) is too damn high
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
BIG game in J2, #JLeague promotion on the line between V-Varen Nagasaki vs. Mito HollyHock

Ikki Arai smashes in a loose ball from a set-piece for Nagasaki!
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The Emperor's Cup is supposed to be the premier domestic cup ⚽ competition in Japan and it's run sooo pooorlyyyy by the JFA

OTOH the #JLeague has been doing really well with the League Cup (format change, marketing campaigns, etc.)
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Oh i was discussing this with a colleague yesterday so nice to get some clarity (well, ok there are some weird permutations especially wrt to the. 100 Year Vision league lol)
The winner of today's Emperor's Cup final between Machida Zelvia and Vissel Kobe will get a spot in the 2026-27 ACL2.

UNLESS either of them win the 2025-26 ACLE or the 100 Year Vision League, both of which would offer them direct entry to the 2026-27 ACLE.

In that case...
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by ⚽️ Ryo 📊
This week's episode is available now via Podbean, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts: we review Japan's int. break, hand out some team MVP awards, & chat Emperor's Cup semis then preview the final.
jtalkpod.podbean.com/e/episode-59...
Episode 595 - Samurai Blue & Emperor's Cup | The J-Talk Podcast
After Jonny revels in Scotland's qualification for the World Cup, we round up another productive international break for the Samurai Blue following wins over Bolivia on Tuesday, and Ghana last Friday....
jtalkpod.podbean.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Haruya Fujii, Ryotaro Tsunoda, Hayao Kawabe, etc…
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
IRAQQQ in the 106th minute!! 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
November 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Japan saved on that counter by a really poor choice to shoot by the Bolivian attacker…
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Yeah.. look if you want to overtake Ayase Ueda you’re gonna have to score that 1v1 Koki Ogawa…
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Starting XI for JAPAN 🇯🇵 vs. Bolivia 🇧🇴

- Hayakawa keeps his place in goal!
- Wataru Endo back with the captain's armband 🫡
- Could easily be Seko @ LB and Sugawara @ RB in a Back 4 as well

#daihyo
November 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Switching to Sports360, hopefully Kuryu Matsuki can find a new club in the winter. Really needs to get game time & his confidence back.

I wrote a couple years ago that he should go to the Bundesliga as his first European destination & I still stand by that.
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
IRELANDDD OMGGGGG

3-2!!!!!!
November 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Keigo Higashi comes on and literally minutes later he gets dribbled by Soma for Machida’s 2nd goal

Ffs you really can’t make this up 🤦‍♂️
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
30 more minutes of this shite football from both sides…
November 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Really happy to see Sota Kitano | #北野颯太 get his full Japan National Team debut today! 👍👍
🆕 Shogun Soccer Scouting 🇯🇵⚽️🔍!

🔟: SOTA KITANO | #北野颯太 🐺🌸!

- 🌟 brilliant technique & tenacity
- Support teammates & ⚽️ progression with combination play
- Could choose shot locations better? 😅

LINK 🔗: www.shogunsoccer.com/p/shogun-soc...

#JLeague #Cerezo #セレッソ大阪
Shogun Soccer Scouting #10: Sota Kitano
Clever & Technical, Bursting Forward from Between-the-Lines
www.shogunsoccer.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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-...
TAG Podcast: Eiji Kawashima & FIFPro Asia on tackling Anti-Asian Racism - The Asian Game
Earlier this year FIFPRO Asia/Oceania released a new campaign aimed at targeting the scourge of Anti-Asian racism, shining a light on a subject rarely discussed. The general secretary of FIFPRO Asia/O...
www.theasiangame.net
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM