Joseph Ngadena

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Semen Padang
4 Feb 2029
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Marked for Joseph Ngadena

113 Edition

The Semen Padang Herald

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad25 Sep 2028

Sam Jammeh damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.

The terraces25 Sep 2028

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Match23 Sep 2028

The wait goes on for Semen Padang

6 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.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Words at Semen Padang training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fantamady Diarra 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.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Tempers go at Semen Padang

Ambrizal Umanailo 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.

Match23 Sep 2028

Semen Padang come up short against Madura United

Madura United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Kazaki Nakagawa 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 terraces25 Sep 2028

Everybody has an opinion about Fantamady Diarra

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Market25 Sep 2028

Kianz Froese linked with a move away

The name of Kianz Froese keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Semen Padang say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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87 Edition

The Semen Padang Herald

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad27 Mar 2028

Jaime Giraldo 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 Semen Padang this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 Mar 2028

A move Joseph Ngadena 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. Joseph Ngadena is living that version at Semen Padang, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Fantamady Diarra 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 ratings27 Mar 2028

Kianz Froese runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Kazaki Nakagawa 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.

Match25 Mar 2028

Honours even between Semen Padang and Bhayangkara Presisi

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market27 Mar 2028

Diego Maurício linked with a move away

The name of Diego Maurício keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Semen Padang say nothing, which says plenty.

Market27 Mar 2028

Semen Padang shop where it costs nothing

Joseph Ngadena signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

Market27 Mar 2028

Still no ink between Semen Padang and Joseph Ngadena

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Semen Padang, another week without a signature from Joseph Ngadena.

In brief