Joël Bakanda

Striker - Canon Yaounde
19 Dec 2026
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19 Edition

The Canon Yaounde Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Both of them Juste Koulou's — 8.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Joël Bakanda keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Canon Yaounde may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match5 Dec 2026

Canon Yaounde make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Canon Yaounde have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Canon Yaounde

Clinton N'jie 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.

Squad7 Dec 2026

An unwelcome headline for Franck Steve Belobo

He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.

Loan watch7 Dec 2026

Pederson Ajong wants to come home

“I did not go to Victoria United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Canon Yaounde and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Canon Yaounde Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Hakim Sulemana runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match28 Nov 2026

Canon Yaounde cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Mehdi Khallati 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 Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match28 Nov 2026

Canon Yaounde see off PWD Bamenda

Three points for Canon Yaounde, 1‑0 the final word against PWD Bamenda in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Issa Bangfome 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.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Joël Bakanda stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.92 on the card, and the Canon Yaounde support went home talking about one name.

In brief

16 Edition

The Canon Yaounde Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match14 Nov 2026

Canon Yaounde win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Unisport Bafang will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Mehdi Khallati 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 Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match14 Nov 2026

Martin Ako Assomo the difference as Canon Yaounde beat Unisport Bafang

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Martin Ako Assomo. 2‑1 against Unisport Bafang, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces16 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Karim Bello

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Ninety minutes of Martin Ako Assomo at his very best

Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Canon Yaounde.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Words at Canon Yaounde training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joël Paten 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.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Dilane Ekongolo

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad16 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Paulin Banda Nkounou

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Karim Bello shuts the door again

6 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

In brief