Brahim Mahamat

Central Defender - AS Etat Major
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Brahim Mahamat

26 Edition

The AS Etat Major Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

16 unbeaten for AS Etat Major

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 16 matches without defeat is a foundation AS Etat Major did not have in the autumn.

Market

Terms done: Idriss Djimet is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Galactik waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AS Etat Major is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

AS Etat Major turn down AS DGSSIE for a squad player

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Brahim Mahamat asks to leave AS Etat Major

“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.

Market

Brahim Doungous has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Etat Major they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at AS Etat Major

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

Squad

Saleh Djimet 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.

Match

AS Etat Major see off AS Algoy

Three points for AS Etat Major, 1‑0 the final word against AS Algoy in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

No hiding place for a squad player

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to a squad player, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The AS Etat Major Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Whatever happens, AS Etat Major do not lose

12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

a squad player has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Etat Major they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Brahim Mahamat 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.

Player ratings

Ezechiel Youssouf beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Saleh Djimet 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 Etat Major this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at AS Etat Major

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Djibrine Djimet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

AS Etat Major supporters have found a favourite in Ezechiel Ngaradoumbe

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Ezechiel Ngaradoumbe 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.

Match

Djibrine Djimet the difference as AS Etat Major beat Galactik

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Djibrine Djimet. 1‑0 against Galactik, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Brahim Mahamat

“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.

In brief

14 Edition

The AS Etat Major Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Narcisse Abakar breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Brahim Mahamat 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.

Market

Issa Tokindang has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AS Etat Major they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A row about effort at AS Etat Major

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saleh Djimet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A falling-out at AS Etat Major

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

The dugout

Adam Abakar 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.

Player ratings

Ezechiel Youssouf takes the honours

Marked 7.85 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, AS Etat Major had the best player on the pitch.

Loan watch

Ezechiel Mbaiguedem has seen enough of CotonTchad

“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 AS Etat Major, and 2 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Ezechiel Youssouf rescues a point for AS Etat Major

It needed Ezechiel Youssouf to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against CotonTchad, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief