Marked for Mahamat Moustapha
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at AS DGSSIE
Evandro Gomes 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ahmat Bechir has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Florent Warna, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at AS DGSSIE
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hassan Oumar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market14 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mohamed Chennah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Evandro Gomes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match5 Dec 2026
Level with 89 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon AS DGSSIE had all but put away. Galactik will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Eric Onguene
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Eric Onguene
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Eric Onguene has come out of that comparison in the side, and AS DGSSIE have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match5 Dec 2026
It needed Patrick Doukaga to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Galactik, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ali Haroun: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Moubarak Djibrine has moved up it.
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Crisis
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AS DGSSIE may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at AS DGSSIE
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Evandro Gomes was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match28 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout30 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Eric Onguene asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Evandro Gomes keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS DGSSIE say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Florent Warna speaks, and the room listens
“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at AS DGSSIE was different afterwards.
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.54, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Soufiane Tannane 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
AS Algoy leaking at the back
4 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
Issa 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
AS Algoy rescue it on 88 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. Foullah Edifice had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“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 Algoy, and 0 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Foullah Edifice leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mahamat Adoum was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the AS Algoy dressing room was either.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at AS DGSSIE
Evandro Gomes 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at AS DGSSIE
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Djibrine Oumar
“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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Oumar Souleymane’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and AS DGSSIE needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mohamed Chennah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Next up at home: US Moursal, who go into it in position 3. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AS DGSSIE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.61 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at AS DGSSIE
Idriss Abakar 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at AS DGSSIE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evandro Gomes 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
AS DGSSIE are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Oumar Mahamat to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Aiglons, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ali Haroun was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the AS DGSSIE dressing room was either.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AS DGSSIE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mahamat Ndoram is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marius Ndoram has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mohamed Chennah signs something — a contract at AS DGSSIE or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at AS DGSSIE the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up on the road: Aiglons, position 9. The supporters who go will talk about it all week and the ones who do not will check their phones at ten to five.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS DGSSIE will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 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 AS DGSSIE this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for AS DGSSIE, 1‑0 the final word against AS Etat Major in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.57, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Ali Haroun could afford to be generous.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
No investment in the facilities at AS DGSSIE
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 20 years old, Oumar Mahamat became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS DGSSIE will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at AS DGSSIE the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Next up at home: AS Etat Major, who go into it in position 10. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AS DGSSIE will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at AS DGSSIE
Evandro Gomes 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at AS DGSSIE
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Ezechiel Abba out for 41 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AS Algoy will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 0 in, 8 out at AS Algoy
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 8 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at AS Algoy
Issa 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ezechiel Abba and AS Algoy agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at AS Algoy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Narcisse Allamine 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Ezechiel Mahamat keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AS Algoy say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
AS DGSSIE offered $38.0K; US Moursal said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
AS DGSSIE asked and Stars Jeunes Talents said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Idriss Abakar 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Market31 Aug 2026
Every supporter in the ground could have named the hole in this team, and most of them did, loudly, for months. Idriss Abakar has been signed to close it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to AS Algoy: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.