Williams Vilakazi

Goalkeeper - CR Belouizdad
2 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Williams Vilakazi

10 Edition

The CR Belouizdad Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Naoufel Khacef 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 CR Belouizdad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Farid El Melali runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Loan watch

Anes Mokhtar has seen enough of MB Rouissat

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at CR Belouizdad, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Words at CR Belouizdad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Houcine Benayada 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.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Raouf Benguit

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Raouf Benguit has come out of that comparison in the side, and CR Belouizdad have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

Farid El Melali loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Farid El Melali. CR Belouizdad will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The CR Belouizdad Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at CR Belouizdad

Naoufel Khacef 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.

Squad

Mohamed Touat is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to George Ilenikhena

At 20 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.

Match

Jean Charles Ahoua the difference as CR Belouizdad beat ES Setif

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jean Charles Ahoua. 2‑0 against ES Setif, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Abdennour Iheb Belhocini

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Houcine Benayada 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bradley Mabunda

66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bloemfontein Celtic lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

S'fiso Hlanti pulls a muscle — 17 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic

Evidence Grobler 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.

Squad

Words at Bloemfontein Celtic training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. S'fiso Hlanti 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.

Player ratings

Siyabonga Mothiba runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Bloemfontein Celtic draw a blank against Maritzburg United

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Maritzburg United defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief