Sabo Gambo

Central Midfielder - Gazelle Garoua
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sabo Gambo

7 Edition

The Gazelle Garoua Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Housseini Ousmanou

There were 10 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.

Match

Gazelle Garoua win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 96th minute. Aigle Royal de Moungo will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

Both of them Abiola Dauda's — 8.93

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.93, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Both of them Sabo Gambo's — 8.09

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.09, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Ange Constant Kenfack hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gazelle Garoua can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Sabo Gambo sends Gazelle Garoua past Aigle Royal de Moungo

It finished 4‑3, and it was Sabo Gambo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gazelle Garoua.

Player ratings

Sudais Ali Baba was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Sabo Gambo

At 22 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Wanre Daikreo

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

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Squad Words at Gazelle Garoua training over how hard people work
  • Squad The first one for Abiola Dauda
Back issues
4 Edition

The Gazelle Garoua Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Gazelle Garoua turn down Etoiles du Mande for Saidou Nouhou

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

A falling-out at Gazelle Garoua

Dave Tessa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Gazelle Garoua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wanre Daikreo 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Gazelle Garoua Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Maël Monyebe 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 Gazelle Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

The ambition of Sabo Gambo outgrows Gazelle Garoua early

Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Sabo Gambo needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Gazelle Garoua know which stage they are at.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Browdon Kuissi Fossi is in the works

Gazelle Garoua have made the call to Stade Renard de Melong. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

A row about effort at Gazelle Garoua

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brayan Itende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Sudais Ali Baba remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Gazelle Garoua would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief