Abraham Owusu

Striker - Lautoka
2 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Abraham Owusu

34 Edition

The Lautoka Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Ibrahim Al-Hamlan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 74. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Whatever happens, Lautoka do not lose

6 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.

Squad

Junior Anand 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.

Squad

Abraham Owusu 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 Lautoka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Shivam Naidu

7.28, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Lautoka had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

No hiding place for Mosese Naba

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

In brief

  • Squad Aporosa Yada has become a man the manager trusts
  • Match Point won or two lost for Lautoka?
Back issues
27 Edition

The Lautoka Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Saula Waqa damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Lautoka

Sairusi Nalaubu 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.

Squad

Ibrahim Al-Hamlan wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Lautoka know it.

In brief

  • Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Lautoka
  • Squad Words at Lautoka training over how hard people work
  • Market Window shut, Saula Waqa still here
25 Edition

The Lautoka Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at Lautoka

Sairusi Nalaubu 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.

Squad

Words at Lautoka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Junior Anand 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.

Squad

Abraham Owusu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abraham Owusu and Lautoka agree another 3 years.

In brief

12 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Christian Kudus

Successful dribbles: 47. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Patrick Baba breaks a bone — 56 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Only the photograph left for Emmanuel Waris

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emmanuel Waris will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BA All Stars the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

4 matches without a win for BA All Stars

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around BA All Stars are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Kamaldeen Essien 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 BA All Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Ernest Appiah wants to come home

“I did not go to New Edubiase United to sit and watch. I want to come back to BA All Stars and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

In brief