Hamidou Hamza

Central Defender - Colombe du Dja et Lobo
31 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Hamidou Hamza

26 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Colombe du Dja et Lobo tear Unisport Bafang apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Unisport Bafang, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

A brace, and Jean Hugues Eyango takes the afternoon — 9.90

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jean Hugues Eyango provided it, and the 9.90 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

A brace, and Edmond Sindjo takes the afternoon — 9.65

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Edmond Sindjo provided it, and the 9.65 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Jean Hugues Eyango is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.51 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market

Hamidou Hamza 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Yvan Mvondo Olama 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

The run at home goes on for Colombe du Dja et Lobo

8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Match

Jean Hugues Eyango at the heart of a fast Colombe du Dja et Lobo start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Jean Hugues Eyango in the middle of it, and Unisport Bafang unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

The dugout

A satisfied Herve Dawa

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑1, Herve Dawa could afford to be generous.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Jean Hugues Eyango scores twice — 9.72

Two goals and a mark of 9.72 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Both of them Edmond Sindjo's — 9.68

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.68, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Yvan Mvondo Olama was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Jean Hugues Eyango

15 goals and a season average of 7.45 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Tempers go at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Jean Hugues Eyango 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Colombe du Dja et Lobo and Aigle Royal de Moungo in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

Jean Hugues Eyango sends Colombe du Dja et Lobo past Aigle Royal de Moungo

It finished 4‑2, and it was Jean Hugues Eyango’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Colombe du Dja et Lobo.

Squad

A row about effort at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

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

The dugout

A satisfied Herve Dawa

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑2, Herve Dawa could afford to be generous.

In brief

17 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Henry Tchikeu

36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Colombe du Dja et Lobo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

James Tendoh 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.

Squad

Jean Hugues Eyango 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Jean Hugues Eyango

11 goals and a season average of 7.29 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Randy Ntume makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Herve Dawa on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Hamidou Hamza is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Match

Colombe du Dja et Lobo and Fortuna Mfou cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Fortuna Mfou came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

The dugout

Édouard Sombang has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Colombe du Dja et Lobo 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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Henry Tchikeu out for 66 days

66 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Colombe du Dja et Lobo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Édouard Sombang

There were 7 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Colombe du Dja et Lobo against Unisport Bafang

0‑2 to Unisport Bafang, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Tempers go at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Yvan Mvondo Olama 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 dugout

Herve Dawa: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

No hiding place for Joseph Apam

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

Player ratings

James Tendoh was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. 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 dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Hamidou Hamza's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief