Mamadou Dieng

Striker - Chiapas
26 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mamadou Dieng

7 Edition

The Chiapas Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Guillermo Pozos damages knee ligaments — 120 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 120 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Chiapas taken apart

0‑4 to Pachuca, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

8 matches without a win for Chiapas

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Chiapas are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Chiapas

Ricardo Díaz 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Jesús Isijara

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Chiapas

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

When it matters, Elías Hernández plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jesús Isijara

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Luis Donaldo Hernández

A mark of 5.44 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

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7 Edition

The Minnesota United FC Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

No hiding place for Drake Callender

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

Player ratings

The game went through Marcus Caldeira — 6.79

Marked 6.79 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad

Ho-yeon Jung 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

Honours even between Minnesota United FC and San Diego Football Club

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Tomás Chancalay

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Minnesota United FC pick somebody else ahead of Tyler Deric

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Dominik Fitz has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Minnesota United FC will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Still no ink between Minnesota United FC and Peter Stroud

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Minnesota United FC, another week without a signature from Peter Stroud.

Market

The Bongokuhle Hlongwane story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Bongokuhle Hlongwane signs something — a contract at Minnesota United FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

5 Edition

The Minnesota United FC Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Minnesota United FC

0‑1 against LA Galaxy, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Minnesota United FC

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. San Jose Earthquakes kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Minnesota United FC will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Market

Chiapas watching Mamadou Dieng

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Minnesota United FC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tempers go at Minnesota United FC

Drake Callender 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

Joaquín Pereyra runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Nicolás Romero 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.

Squad

Words at Minnesota United FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyle Duncan 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kelvin Yeboah at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Minnesota United FC.

Match

Minnesota United FC and San Jose Earthquakes take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief