Daniel Mabomba

Central Defender - Dobrudzha
23 Sep 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Mabomba

59 Edition

The Dobrudzha Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Dobrudzha are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 16 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

Dobrudzha cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Matheus Leoni 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 Dobrudzha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Daniel Mabomba at Dobrudzha

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Mabomba is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Roberto Fernández 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.

Player ratings

Diogo Ressurreição in the eights

A performance of 9.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Valdu Té the difference as Dobrudzha beat Lokomotiv Sofia

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Valdu Té. 2‑1 against Lokomotiv Sofia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Valdu Té at his very best

Marked 8.52. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dobrudzha.

Squad

Yaroslav Karpizin wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Dobrudzha know it.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Dobrudzha Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Dobrudzha

21 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Matheus Leoni 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 Dobrudzha, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Kauã Elias runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Bogdan Kostov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dobrudzha have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

At 20, Kauã Elias is already the best thing here

An average of 7.18 in a first team he is several years too young for. Dobrudzha have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market

Diogo Madaleno is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dobrudzha is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Matheus Leoni 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 Dobrudzha this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A move Buba would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Buba is living that version at Dobrudzha, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

Septemvri take the points off Dobrudzha

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief