The Al Jazira Herald
Match19 Sep 2026
Al Jazira tear Al Fujairah apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Al Fujairah, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Marcus Meloni
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 30 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Willyan Rocha 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 Al Jazira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Milson
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Willyan Rocha
Marked 9.64 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Mamadou Coulibaly
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Abdalla Ramadan 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Willyan Rocha is off the mark for Al Jazira
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Milson finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Al Jazira have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- Market The Mamadou Coulibaly story refuses to die
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Milson
- The terraces Mamadou Coulibaly has his own song now