The Dibba Gazette
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Iago
86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dibba lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Both of them Mohanad Ali's — 8.46
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Dibba
Andrigo 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jeremías Bogado 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Saymon runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Gilmário Menezes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gilmário Menezes, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Mohanad Ali rescues a point for Dibba
- Market The Mohanad Ali story refuses to die
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Mohanad Ali