Yosuke Ideguchi's Arrival
An early Square Ball cover marking Yosuke Ideguchi's arrival at Leeds — now a quiet document of all the anticipation his career here never got to repay.
About the Project
I drew this to mark the arrival of Japanese international Yosuke Ideguchi at The Square Ball in 2017.
Looking back, it's become a document of anticipation more than achievement — a cover for a player whose Leeds career never really got the chance to begin.
It's an early piece, but that's part of what I like about it now: a snapshot of the moment, and of the strange optimism football can summon before reality wanders in.
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Sequence note
The closing plates are intended to read like a print-room pass: object, surface, and image held in sequence rather than treated as isolated uploads.
