The Binga Herald
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matías Aguirregaray
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Binga lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Massiré Gassama keeps Binga in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market8 Mar 2027
Prosper Ibekwe 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 The request is on a desk at Binga, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Ahmadou Bello runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Mohamed Koumaré signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohamed Koumaré and Binga agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Ahmadou Bello 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 Binga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Diego Cerón shuts the door
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match6 Mar 2027
Binga make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match6 Mar 2027
Mohamed Koumaré the difference as Binga beat Djoliba
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mohamed Koumaré. 1‑0 against Djoliba, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Binga and Ziad Nemer
- Player ratings Timothy Atamenwan ran the game