<p>On December 19, 2013, the new uniform for the Urawa Reds&#8217; 2014 season was unveiled. The model for the new uniform was Ryoma Watanabe, 29, who scored seven goals in 29 J1 league matches this season and one goal in three matches at the Club World Cup in the summer. Watanabe Ryoma (29) led the team as an ace.</p>
<p> On April 9, 2013, Watanabe announced his marriage to former &#8220;Oha Girl&#8221; model Nozomi Maeda (32). It was a year of fulfillment in both public and private life. Friday reported their &#8220;premarital cohabitation&#8221; in January &#8217;25.&#8217; We look back based on the article distributed on February 4, &#8217;25.</p>
<figure id="attachment_451548" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-451548" style="width: 1404px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d916ac43"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/c9534d724a0af58b28bf9f31fa1a092c.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-451548" class="wp-caption-text"> Watanabe leaving the ″love nest. He is a handsome man who can play both as an attacker and a volleyball player.</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span class="strongInContent"> Former &#8220;Oha-girl&#8221; who assisted the &#8220;new ace</span></h2>
<p> Ryoma Watanabe is known as a stoic man.</p>
<p> He basically takes one day off a week. He heads to the training ground in Urawa at 8:00 am. This attitude is evident in his play as well, and in the 2012 season, his total mileage was 442.5 km, the highest in the league.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He was runner-up in the National High School Soccer Championships when he was at Maebashi Ikuei. He became the talk of the town when he dropped out of Waseda University and signed a contract with FC Ingolstadt in Germany. He returned to Japan in 2006 as a &#8220;reimported striker,&#8221; and in 2011, when he was with FC Tokyo, his shot against Cerezo Osaka was voted the best goal of the year.</span></p>
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<p> In January <span class="strongInContent">2012</span>, he moved to Urawa Reds. As the writer says, &#8220;He must have had a lot of expectations for joining a long-awaited prestigious club,&#8221; and Watanabe was active, scoring six goals and assisting five (17th in the league), the most among Japanese players on the team. He has established himself as the &#8220;new ace.</p>
<p> Watanabe lives in a luxury condominium in Tokyo. He chose this location because, although it is close to an expressway entrance, it is a long way from his home base in Urawa, &#8220;where there are many fashionable cafes where you can bring your pets. The ace, who is totally devoted to training and conditioning, was being walked by former &#8220;Oha girl&#8221; Maeda Nozomi, aka &#8220;Maenon.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Maenon worked as an exclusive model for &#8220;Pichilemon&#8221; and &#8220;Popteen&#8221; before launching her own apparel brand. Recently, she has also been active as a YouTube star. Although they are both busy, they started dating last summer and even went on a trip to Hokkaido,&#8221; said an acquaintance.</span></p>
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<p> After the event, she returned home to the apartment building where she had lived before. On another morning, I saw Maenon leaving the tower apartment. In a video uploaded on New Year&#8217;s Day in 2013, she confessed, &#8220;I&#8217;m in a relationship with someone.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I have been in a relationship with someone, and I wanted to be the first to let my fans, who have supported me for a long time, know when I find someone special.</span></p>
<p> In response, Maeda&#8217;s agency responded as follows.</p>
<p> Both cohabitation and marriage are private matters, so we leave them to the couple themselves.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" The couple&#39;s two shots were met with rave reviews."></div>
<h2><span class="strongInContent">Fans praised the couple&#8217;s marriage, saying, &#8220;It made me so happy.</span></h2>
<p> Then, on April 9, &#8217;25, they announced their marriage on their Instagram. Maeda shared a two-shot of her and Watanabe&#8217;s marriage on her Instagram page,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I am a worrier and think too much, but with him, who naturally makes me feel positive, we can support each other no matter what happens in the future and overcome any difficulties we may face.</span></p>
<p> Watanabe reported. Watanabe reported, &#8220;I would like to thank all of my fans for their constant support,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I consider Urawa Reds as my family, and I will continue to fight with all my might. We are Reds.</span></p>
<p> He also wrote about his passion for the fans, who acknowledged his love for the team.</p>
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<p> As mentioned at the beginning of this article, Watanabe has been very active this year. He was chosen as the model for the new uniforms to be worn in the &#8220;Meiji Yasuda J1 Centennial Concept League,&#8221; which will start in February 2014, because he is one of the most handsome men on the team.</p>
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<p> On December 15, &#8217;25, Maeda showed a couple shot on her Instagram. Maeda is wearing a black lace-patterned dress and Watanabe is in a tuxedo. In the shot of them cuddling with their faces close together, the couple showed their marital bliss. The comments section was filled with <span class="strongInContent">such</span> words of praise <span class="strongInContent">as, &#8220;It&#8217;s too nice,&#8221; and &#8220;I feel so happy.</span></p>
<p> The couple is sure to be very active in the 2014 season as well.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Former &quot;Oha Girl&quot; Maenon walking her dog"></div>
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<figure id="attachment_410275" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-410275" style="width: 1251px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="54af354a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/01/882ea301973222dfc8a42e79fefdab1b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-410275" class="wp-caption-text"> Former &#8220;Oha Girl&#8221; model Nozomi Maeda. She also has a great style.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_410276" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-410276" style="width: 746px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="2d09bf18"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/01/4ffb984efbb0a76e360876bc5b1d4189.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-410276" class="wp-caption-text"> Watanabe, the &#8220;new ace of the Urawa Reds&#8221; and the most popular &#8220;good-looking guy&#8221; in the team.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_410277" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-410277" style="width: 1485px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="da3f4fee"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/01/cbda7a4349a2ccd72d942ce80a8d1fdf.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-410277" class="wp-caption-text"> Maeda walking Watanabe&#8217;s dog.</figcaption></figure>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" A happy shot of the couple"></div>
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<figure id="attachment_451557" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-451557" style="width: 1086px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="334d94fe"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/817dd4d01fae66acd36746bffa551a0a.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-451557" class="wp-caption-text"> Watanabe showing off her latest shot on December 15, &#8217;25 (from Nozomi Maeda&#8217;s Instagram @maeda_nozomi)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_451551" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-451551" style="width: 896px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="937d3266"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/8760ef619531192f179b98bd5527b965.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-451551" class="wp-caption-text"> The latest shot of the couple on December 15, &#8217;25 (from Nozomi Maeda&#8217;s Instagram @maeda_nozomi)</figcaption></figure>


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 In January 2013, we scooped the "premarital cohabitation" of Urawa Reds ace Ryoma Watanabe and former "Oha girl" Nozomi Maeda. Three months later, they announced their marriage. The two are shown here in a lovey-dovey shot.

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