Cheïbane Traoré

Striker - Djoliba
27 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Cheïbane Traoré

21 Edition

The Djoliba Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A brace, and Boulkassoum Diarra takes the afternoon — 8.61

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Boulkassoum Diarra provided it, and the 8.61 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Oumar Coulibaly 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 Djoliba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Boulkassoum Diarra sends Djoliba past US Forces Armees

It finished 3‑1, and it was Boulkassoum Diarra’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Djoliba.

Squad

No hiding place for Zoumana Simpara

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zoumana Simpara, and the manager let it.

Squad

Sékou Diarra 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.

Match

Boulkassoum Diarra answers US Forces Armees immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Boulkassoum Diarra had Djoliba level again within 3 minutes, and US Forces Armees never got to play with a lead at all.

Player ratings

Amadou Soumaré runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Djoliba pick somebody else ahead of Kénan Glougbé

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

Cheïbane Traoré changes it off the bench

He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Djoliba had a different afternoon.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Djoliba Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Bakary Kouma 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 Djoliba can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Lamine Diakité gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Amadou Soumaré in the eights

A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Boardroom

117% of the income goes out in wages at Djoliba

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Amadou Soumaré named player of the month

The award goes to Amadou Soumaré, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Loan watch

Aboubacar Sidibé counts the days

“I watch every Djoliba game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FC Diarra runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Djoliba pick somebody else ahead of Zoumana Simpara

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Amadou Soumaré named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Amadou Soumaré is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Match

Djoliba share the spoils with AS Bakaridjan

A 1‑1 draw with AS Bakaridjan leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief