César Horst

Goalkeeper - AS Police
23 Nov 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for César Horst

16 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Evidence Mokoena

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Williams Wonah puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AS Police, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at AS Police

Oumar Koné 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.

Squad

Words at AS Police training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stephen Wisdom 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.

The terraces

AS Police supporters have found a favourite in Stephen Wisdom

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Stephen Wisdom has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Stephen Wisdom the difference as AS Police beat US Forces Armees

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stephen Wisdom. 1‑0 against US Forces Armees, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Abdoulaye Guèye 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

Stephen Wisdom takes the honours

Marked 7.95 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, AS Police had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

AS Police pick somebody else ahead of César Horst

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.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Williams Wonah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. 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 AS Police training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaya Konaté 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.

Match

Binga take the points off AS Police

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Moses Mphekgoane 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 AS Police this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

César Horst 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at AS Police

23 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

11 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

César Horst puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AS Police, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Suleiman Mojereola

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Stephen Wisdom, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92

A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Moses Mphekgoane 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

Evidence Mokoena gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Evidence Mokoena has just signed for AS Police, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Oumar Koné 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 AS Police this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A late step up for Seydou Diallo

At 34 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Match

Stephen Wisdom sends AS Police past FC Diarra

It finished 2‑1, and it was Stephen Wisdom’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS Police.

The terraces

AS Police supporters have found a favourite in Stephen Wisdom

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Stephen Wisdom has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

10 Edition

The AS Police Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Diego Quirós keeps AS Police in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Real improvement from Williams Wonah at AS Police

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Williams Wonah is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

César Horst wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AS Police know it.

Squad

Bandile Dlamini signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bandile Dlamini commits to AS Police for another 4 years.

Boardroom

4 academy players handed senior numbers at AS Police

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

One of our own: Djigui Bagayoko joins the AS Police first team

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

Market

One of our own: Samba Kone joins the AS Police first team

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

Market

AS Police promote Daouda Sidibe from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daouda Sidibe 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

Modibo Malle steps up from the AS Police academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Modibo Malle 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.

In brief