Marked for Abraham Boateng
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑4 to Djoliba, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market23 Nov 2026
Junior Mpanza 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 AS Police can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Mamadou Sidibé yet — 7.86
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match21 Nov 2026
AS Police leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Oumar Koné 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 AS Police this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; AS Police are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Yaya Konaté 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kabelo Nkgwesa, and the manager let it.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the AS Police dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match4 Nov 2026
US Forces Armees ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match7 Nov 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Malick Berthé will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at AS Police escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to AS Police's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AS Police has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A defender's goal wins it for AS Police — 7.27
1 for Oumar Koné, marked 7.27, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match7 Nov 2026
4‑5 to AS Korofina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Nov 2026
César Horst 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 AS Police this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.66, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
AS Police throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Binga the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that AS Police will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Yaya Konaté yet — 8.42
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.42 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match31 Oct 2026
Malick Berthé scored, and precious little else went right: 5‑6 to Binga, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Abraham Boateng gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Abraham Boateng has just signed for AS Police, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Oumar Koné 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at AS Police training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaya Konaté 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
Abdul Acquah breaks a bone — 142 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 142 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A move Gonzalo Saavedra 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. Gonzalo Saavedra is living that version at Hasaacas, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
13 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Harrison Mohammed. 2‑1 against Inter Allies, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Francis Inusah 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Harrison Mohammed was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Yaw Partey changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Hasaacas had a different afternoon.
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Steady
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Isaac Kudus
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Cohen Stander 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Hasaacas are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Abraham Boateng is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
2‑3 to Liberty Professionals, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Osman Kyereh, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Hasaacas will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Felix Partey 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Hasaacas
Marcelo Barreña arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Hasaacas say no — this time
The offer from Liberty Professionals for Abdul Waris was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kwadwo Gyan and Hasaacas agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Harrison Mohammed 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Albert Asante
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ashanti Gold are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Hasaacas will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.