Shogun Soccer
Ryo NakagawaraNewsletter on Japanese Soccer (J.League, Japan national team, etc.) from a tactical, data, and fan perspective.
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2026/2027 J.League Season: Matchday #1 Musings
It’s a new season! The first one in the new fall-spring calendar. This won’t be a review of every single match in matchday one because even I couldn’t crunch through all that in the three~four-ish days since the weekend. Here are my thought...
Shogun Soccer Scouting #21: Haruto Nakano
I’m back! We are nearing the grand opening of the first fall-spring J.League season in early August. I thought about doing this one back in April~May but since I had done a lot of Center Backs recently it got shelved for the time being. I c...
2026 World Cup: Japan vs. Brazil & overall tournament review
Another World Cup, another knock-out game defeat. Brazil’s winner came in the 95th minute with only a minute left to go until Extra Time. Not a whole lot of pretty graphics or anything. A lot of words only.
For an audio version of a review...
2026 World Cup (Round of 32): Japan vs. Brazil Preview
Japan advanced from Group F with fairly good results on the field, finishing 2nd, but Takefusa Kubo’s injury brought to the fore, once again, the debates about depth in various key positions1. Group F and Group C were paired up together in...
2026 World Cup (Group F): Tunisia vs. Japan Review
4-0 and Japan’s (and Asia’s) biggest victory at a World Cup!
All of my pre-game jitters about “new manager bounce”, players being distracted by Herve Renard on the sideline, etc. were put to bed quite quickly as Daichi Kamada scored withi...
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Ryo is a Japanese soccer blogger. I run the "Shogun Soccer" newsletter that analyzes the J.League from a tactical, data, and fan perspective! Twitter: @R_by_Ryo BlueSky:@rbyryo
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