Issa Ndoram

Right Back - AS Etat Major
26 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Issa Ndoram

17 Edition

The AS Etat Major Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for AS Etat Major

0‑5 against Elect Sport, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

9 saves: Issa Djimet was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Abdramane Hissein puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AS Etat Major, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for AS Etat Major

5 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

A falling-out at AS Etat Major

Idriss Adoum and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Ali Adoum 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Issa Ndoram

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the AS Etat Major 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑5 defeat, delivered by Abdoulaye Mbaiguedem to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

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The AS Etat Major Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Issa Djimet stands alone

18 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Mahamat Youssouf 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 Etat Major can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at AS Etat Major

Idriss Adoum and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at AS Etat Major training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Adoum 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for AS Etat Major against CotonTchad

0‑2 to CotonTchad, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Ali Adoum 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.

Loan watch

Narcisse Bechir wants to come home

“I did not go to AS DGSSIE to sit and watch. I want to come back to AS Etat Major and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Abdoulaye Mbaiguedem to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Djibrine Souleymane named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Djibrine Souleymane is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief