Kwadwo Adjei

Central Midfielder - BA All Stars
4 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Kwadwo Adjei

16 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Words exchanged at BA All Stars

Chinedu Chukwu 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

Ayodele Akinyemi is a square peg at BA All Stars

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nana Nuhu

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

The dugout

Kwadwo Adjei gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Kwadwo Adjei is on it.

The dugout

Kamaldeen Wakaso knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at BA All Stars, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Chinedu Chukwu is starting to belong

Somebody to talk to at the next peg, a few words of the language, and a training ground that has stopped being a foreign country. It never appears in a scouting report and it decides most signings.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Vintage Kwadwo Adjei — 7.80

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.80, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Salim Adams 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

Tempers go at BA All Stars

Isaac Frimpong 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.

Match

Andrew Djiku the difference as BA All Stars beat Wa All Stars

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrew Djiku. 2‑0 against Wa All Stars, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Francis Owusu

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

No hiding place for Chinedu Chukwu

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

Player ratings

Andrew Djiku in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Edmund Sulemana in the eights

A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Still no ink between BA All Stars and Chinedu Chukwu

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at BA All Stars, another week without a signature from Chinedu Chukwu.

In brief

12 Edition

The BA All Stars Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for BA All Stars

A 3‑0 win over Asante Kotoko, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

A brace, and Andrew Djiku takes the afternoon — 8.76

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andrew Djiku provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Elvis Addo says BA All Stars went back on their word

“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 ratings

Kwadwo Adjei, 33, rolls back the years — 7.97

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Words exchanged at BA All Stars

Chinedu Chukwu 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.

Player ratings

Kamaldeen Gyan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Andrew Djiku the difference as BA All Stars beat Ashanti Gold

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrew Djiku. 2‑1 against Ashanti Gold, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

BA All Stars supporters have found a favourite in Elvis Addo

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Elvis Addo 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Edmund Sulemana at his very best

Marked 8.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at BA All Stars.

In brief