Marcel Ninga

Right Back - Foullah Edifice
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marcel Ninga

18 Edition

The Foullah Edifice Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Foullah Edifice's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Foullah Edifice has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Foullah Edifice cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

A row about effort at Foullah Edifice

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kita was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Words exchanged at Foullah Edifice

Abdelaziz Issa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

Wages eat 98% of everything Foullah Edifice earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Yaya Karim

7.58, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Foullah Edifice had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout

Narcisse Bechir: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Match

No goals between Foullah Edifice and AS Etat Major

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. AS Etat Major will be the happier side with the point.

The dugout

Kita does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Foullah Edifice Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Foullah Edifice

0‑2 against AS Algoy, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

Yaya Karim runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Foullah Edifice training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kita is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market

Djibrine Haroun steps up from the Foullah Edifice academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Djibrine Haroun 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

One of our own: Abdramane Ndoram joins the Foullah Edifice first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdramane Ndoram is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

A quiet fortnight at Foullah Edifice

With 6 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

Squad

Tempers go at Foullah Edifice

Abdelaziz Issa 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.

The dugout

Narcisse Bechir: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Kita left out for tactical reasons at Foullah Edifice

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

7 Edition

The Foullah Edifice Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Narcisse Abba 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 Foullah Edifice can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Foullah Edifice promote Abdoulaye Mbainaissem from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdoulaye Mbainaissem 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.

Market

Foullah Edifice promote Issa Haroun from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Issa Haroun 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

5 Edition

The Foullah Edifice Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gislain Abianda

Foullah Edifice asked and Fortuna Mfou said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Kita falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

International break empties Foullah Edifice

6 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

Squad

Marcel Ninga out for 15 days

The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Marcel Ninga, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Adam Hissein in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Foullah Edifice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Foullah Edifice try to borrow Djibrine Mahamat

Stars Jeunes Talents have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief