When goalkeeper Daniel Schmidt lines up between the posts on Saturday night, he will be wearing Vegalta Sendai's crest for the last time. The 27-year-old's next stop will be Europe after agreeing on a full transfer to Belgium's Sint-Truiden earlier this month. While he's far from ...
Sai van Wermeskerken will become the latest Japanese player to join a top-flight European club this summer as he prepares to sign with the Netherlands' PEC Zwolle pending the completion of a medical examination. The 25-year-old right back, born in the Netherlands to a Dutch ...
The score was enough for Urawa Reds to earn three points on Saturday, but the road there was hardly scenic. Urawa labored to a 1-0 win over Vegalta Sendai on Saturday, despite spending roughly 40 minutes with a man advantage. Although expected heavy rain for kickoff ...
It's rarely easy to say goodbye. That's especially so in the J. League, where the celebration of players leaving to go overseas has turned into an annual event — along with a never-ending debate over whether much of it is deserved. The honor guards, the video ...
"Gentle Black Giants" reveals a little-known chapter of Japanese baseball's early years and the impact that a collection of Negro Leagues players had on its development.
On Friday, former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn abruptly announced — and just as abruptly canceled — a press conference as his defense against charges of financial misconduct continued. On Saturday, the Nissan-owned Yokohama F. Marinos' defense seemed equally unwilling to show up at Tokyo's Ajinomoto ...
Former J. League legends Zico and Guido Buchwald both urged young Japanese players to avoid making sudden leaps to big European clubs, suggesting that smaller moves could be better for their long-term development. The two discussed the state of Japanese soccer on Thursday at a ...
The J. League will draw from its considerable network of foreign former players under a new global ambassador program intended to promote the competition overseas. Two of the four ambassadors, former Kashima Antlers legend Zico and former Urawa Reds player and manager Guido Buchwald, joined ...
In the space of nearly 24 hours, Japan's hopes at two major international tournaments were extinguished. On Monday, the Samurai Blue's Copa America campaign ended — not with a bang but with a relative whimper — following a 1-1 draw against Ecuador in Belo Horizonte, ...
Edigar Junio's late goal helped Yokohama F. Marinos overcome their attacking struggles with a 1-0 win over Matsumoto Yamaga on Saturday in the 16th round of the J. League's first division. The result was a welcome one for manager Ange Postecoglou's side, which wasted two ...
