Marked for Marc Njango
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
68 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aigle Royal de Moungo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Aigle Royal de Moungo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Olivier Kouoh Dicka 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Ifeanyi Egwim did the work nobody counts — 6.53
9 combined actions and 6.53. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match21 Dec 2026
Position 9, 16 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Marc Njango 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Georges Etame after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Étienne Zock 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Aigle Royal de Moungo told Jean Pierre Kamdjeu something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Yannick Kamdoum damages knee ligaments — 80 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 80 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from César Epoh
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Vini Lontsi 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 Aigle Royal de Moungo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Olivier Kouoh Dicka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 2‑0 win over Fortuna Mfou, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Georges Etame could afford to be generous.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Yannick Kamdoum
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aigle Royal de Moungo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Samuel Tengoh pops up at the right end — 7.10
7.10, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad9 Nov 2026
John Okoli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marc Njango and Aigle Royal de Moungo agree another 2 years.
Match7 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with PWD Bamenda leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Ebelle, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Georges Etame chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
122 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aigle Royal de Moungo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and John Okoli takes the afternoon — 8.61
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. John Okoli provided it, and the 8.61 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match24 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Victoria United. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Olivier Kouoh Dicka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
David Ntsama has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Aigle Royal de Moungo 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
138 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aigle Royal de Moungo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ifeanyi Egwim and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Olivier Njie has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Aigle Royal de Moungo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Étienne Zock 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Panthere du Nde.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.