Axel Bakoude

Goalkeeper - Colombe du Dja et Lobo
20 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Axel Bakoude

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15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Randy Ntume breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Axel Bakoude

There were 6 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 last season at home is what Joelson is after

It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.

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 terraces

Colombe du Dja et Lobo supporters have found a favourite in Axel Bakoude

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Axel Bakoude has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Colombe du Dja et Lobo find a way past Stade Renard de Melong

Stade Renard de Melong made Colombe du Dja et Lobo work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Jean Hugues Eyango was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.74. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings

One of those days for Bertrand Essiane Ndjongolo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.56, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Arthur Yene was immovable

18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief

Back issues
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The Colombe du Dja et Lobo Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Axel Bakoude: 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.” Colombe du Dja et Lobo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

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.

Squad

Joelson 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.

Squad

Yvan Mvondo Olama 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Colombe du Dja et Lobo against PWD Bamenda

0‑1 to PWD Bamenda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Edmond Sindjo

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

10 Edition

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5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 10 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Match

The wait goes on for Colombe du Dja et Lobo

4 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.

Squad

Joelson 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 Colombe du Dja et Lobo know it.

Squad

Real improvement from Axel Bakoude at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Axel Bakoude is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

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.

Squad

Randy Ntume 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

Canon Yaounde take the points off Colombe du Dja et Lobo

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

Player ratings

Luc Bide Ndohoungar never got going

5.36 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Player ratings

Edmond Sindjo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Victoria United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Colombe du Dja et Lobo did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

A brace, and Joelson takes the afternoon — 8.39

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Joelson provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Herval Joel Ndedi Kingue asks to leave Colombe du Dja et Lobo

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

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.

Squad

Axel Bakoude is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Colombe du Dja et Lobo

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Randy Ntume 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

Colombe du Dja et Lobo see off Dynamo Douala

Three points for Colombe du Dja et Lobo, 2‑1 the final word against Dynamo Douala in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Colombe du Dja et Lobo promote Franck Hongla from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Franck Hongla 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.

In brief