The WAFA Post
Squad5 Apr 2027
Nana Boateng is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Nana Boateng: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Abeiku Kyereh damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.
Match31 Mar 2027
WAFA through in the cup
A 1‑1 win over Aduana Stars, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match31 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, WAFA do not lose
8 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Musa Hamzata 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 WAFA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
One of those days for Mohammed Wakaso
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Musa Hamzata
“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 ratings5 Apr 2027
The kick that got away from Amadu Abdulai
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.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
WAFA release $77.5K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
In brief
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Amos Sulemana
- Market A year gone for Jeffrey Baba
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Amos Sulemana