Brahim Zouad

Central Defender - MC El Bayadh
17 Jul 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Brahim Zouad

73 Edition

The MC El Bayadh Herald

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Abdessamad Bounaama: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” MC El Bayadh have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Abdelkadir Salhi 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 MC El Bayadh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Adel Ghanem shuts the door

Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Timothy Zechariah

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at MC El Bayadh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdessamad Bounaama 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

No goals between MC El Bayadh and CS Constantine

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. CS Constantine will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

Back issues
36 Edition

The MC El Bayadh Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Messie Biatoumoussoka asks to leave MC El Bayadh

“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.

Squad

Brahim Zouad says MC El Bayadh went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Abdelkadir Salhi 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 MC El Bayadh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

11 Edition

The MC El Bayadh Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Messie Biatoumoussoka

59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. MC El Bayadh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The cup run ends for MC El Bayadh

1‑2 against MC Alger, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Abdelkadir Salhi keeps MC El Bayadh in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

The wait goes on for MC El Bayadh

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Timothy Zechariah

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at MC El Bayadh

Abdelkadir Salhi 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.

In brief