Célestin Écua

Left Midfielder - JS Kabylie
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

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The JS Kabylie Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

JS Kabylie tear ES Ben Aknoun apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against ES Ben Aknoun, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Cheick Diabaté's — 8.24

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Nadir Yakoubi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what JS Kabylie can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Hatem Grine is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at JS Kabylie

Cheick Diabaté was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

The CR Belouizdad deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Seif Benrabah reports back to JS Kabylie with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at JS Kabylie

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Rachid Bellahcene steps up from the JS Kabylie academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rachid Bellahcene has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

JS Kabylie promote Islam Djabou from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Islam Djabou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief