Emmanuel Ujah

Central Midfielder - Banik Ostrava
17 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Emmanuel Ujah

16 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Hamidou Kante at 21 — 7.73

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hamidou Kante did not need any: 7.73, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

9 unbeaten for Banik Ostrava

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Banik Ostrava did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings

Jiří Boula goes up and wins it — 7.89

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.89 for the rest of it.

Squad

Matěj Chaluš 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 Banik Ostrava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Banik Ostrava training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jiří Boula 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 dugout

No hiding place for Václav Jurečka

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

Match

Banik Ostrava get the job done against Bohemians 1905

A 1‑0 win over Bohemians 1905, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Filip Kubala runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Emmanuel Ujah signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emmanuel Ujah and Banik Ostrava agree another 3 years.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Jiří Boula suspended
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Patrick Kpozo
Back issues
15 Edition

The Banik Ostrava Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Hamidou Kante at 21 — 7.74

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Hamidou Kante did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Banik Ostrava

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at Banik Ostrava

Matěj Chaluš 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.

Player ratings

Jiří Boula was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Jiří Boula 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

Banik Ostrava are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

Banik Ostrava see off Dukla Prague

Three points for Banik Ostrava, 1‑0 the final word against Dukla Prague in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match

Halfway: Banik Ostrava sit in position 4

27 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

Player ratings

Filip Kubala was the difference for Banik Ostrava

Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

4 Edition

The Rangers International Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Chidiebere Nwobodo beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Rangers International through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over Katsina United, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Chimobi Igwilo, 19, steals the show — 8.20

Marked 8.20 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Ugwuoke Ugochukwu asks to leave Rangers International

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Only the photograph left for Agu Kenechukwu

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Agu Kenechukwu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rangers International the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Samuel Ezekiel

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rangers International have done the hard part with Ikorodu City, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Boardroom

Ugwuoke Ugochukwu has agreed to leave Rangers International for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words at Rangers International training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Emo 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Momodou Jobarteh

Rangers International asked and Paide said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief