Daniel Baba

Attacking Midfielder (C) - WAFA
14 Mar 2027
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Marked for Daniel Baba

29 Edition

The WAFA Post

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings15 Feb 2027

Lebohang Lesako runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market15 Feb 2027

Only the photograph left for Daniel Ayew

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Ayew will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WAFA the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Lebohang Lesako 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.

Match13 Feb 2027

WAFA cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Qudus Akanni 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Harrison Baba 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 ratings15 Feb 2027

Daniel Baba stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.11 on the card, and the WAFA support went home talking about one name.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Daniel Wakaso knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniel Wakaso trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Match13 Feb 2027

Point won or two lost for WAFA?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Bechem United? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

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27 Edition

The WAFA Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces1 Feb 2027

The mood at WAFA has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at WAFA

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Qudus Akanni 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Lebohang Lesako 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Qudus Akanni

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

Match30 Jan 2027

WAFA come up short against Liberty Professionals

Liberty Professionals left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Daniel Baba
  • Squad The division's best last weekend was a WAFA man
  • Market The market said no: Harrison Mensah stays put
  • Boardroom WAFA were not finished after all
26 Edition

The WAFA Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match25 Jan 2027

WAFA are in real trouble now

Position 16, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match23 Jan 2027

Andre Ofori leads the rout of Great Olympics

4‑0, and Andre Ofori took the headlines on an afternoon when everything WAFA tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Both of them Andre Ofori's — 8.81

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.81, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad25 Jan 2027

A one-man rearguard from Ernest Acquah

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at WAFA

Lebohang Lesako 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at WAFA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Qudus Akanni 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 ratings25 Jan 2027

One of those days for Daniel Baba

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.31, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

A masterclass from Lebohang Lesako

Marked 8.16 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Nzube Chukwurah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

19 Edition

The WAFA Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Dec 2026

15 matches without a win for WAFA

The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around WAFA are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Daniel Wakaso damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.

The terraces7 Dec 2026

The mood at WAFA has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Felix Acquah breaks a bone — 59 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match5 Dec 2026

WAFA are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 10 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A one-man rearguard from Ernest Acquah

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Boardroom7 Dec 2026

The scrutiny sharpens at WAFA

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at WAFA is running low.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Qudus Akanni 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.

Match5 Dec 2026

Hasaacas take the points off WAFA

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

  • Boardroom $189.2K taken back off the WAFA table
  • Player ratings The pass was always on for Samuel Kudus
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Daniel Baba
15 Edition

The WAFA Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Nov 2026

Felix Acquah breaks a bone — 87 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match7 Nov 2026

The wait goes on for WAFA

11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match7 Nov 2026

WAFA are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Qudus Akanni

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Ernest Acquah 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.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Lebohang Lesako 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.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Qudus Akanni 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 ratings9 Nov 2026

Daniel Baba was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.32. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match7 Nov 2026

No time for Inter Allies to settle

The goal that put Inter Allies ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when WAFA equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief