Luther Mabunda

Left Midfielder - Real Bamako
27 Aug 2028
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The Real Bamako Chronicle

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Apr 2028

Youssouf Koïta is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Youssouf Koïta: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match5 Apr 2028

Real Bamako out of the cup

Onze Createurs ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match10 Apr 2028

Real Bamako up to position 3

54 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match5 Apr 2028

Nobody wins at Real Bamako

13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings10 Apr 2028

Nobody could get near Issa Djiguiba

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Words at Real Bamako training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Souleymane Coulibaly 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.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Real Bamako

Aboubacar Camara 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.

Squad10 Apr 2028

The manager makes an example of Kabiru Murtala

“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.

Player ratings10 Apr 2028

The kick that got away from Banou Cissé

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

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The Black Aces Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Bradley Mokotjo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 65. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Thato Mokeke damages knee ligaments — 80 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 80 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.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Thamsanqa Billiat, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.15

A mark of 8.15 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market6 Sep 2027

Only the photograph left for Cebisa Ndlovu

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cebisa Ndlovu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Black Aces the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Black Aces

Ramahlwe Jali 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Bradley Mokotjo 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Erick Modiba signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Erick Modiba commits to Black Aces for another 2 years.

Match4 Sep 2027

Thamsanqa Billiat sends Black Aces past University of Pretoria

It finished 2‑1, and it was Thamsanqa Billiat’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Black Aces.

The terraces6 Sep 2027

The crowd has taken to Thamsanqa Billiat

At 21 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.

In brief