Sam Cacace

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111 Edition

The Posta Rangers Post

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Sep 2028

Alvish Ram damages knee ligaments — 71 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 71 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.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

A brace, and Izzadin Juma takes the afternoon — 8.19

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Izzadin Juma provided it, and the 8.19 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market11 Sep 2028

Only the photograph left for Kennedy Ochieng

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kennedy Ochieng will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Posta Rangers the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Words at Posta Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elvis Noor 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.

Match9 Sep 2028

Izzadin Juma the difference as Posta Rangers beat Muranga Seal

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Izzadin Juma. 2‑1 against Muranga Seal, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces11 Sep 2028

The crowd has taken to Izzadin Juma

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad11 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Oliver Maloba

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

Squad11 Sep 2028

Ioane Tabatadze stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ioane Tabatadze and Posta Rangers agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings11 Sep 2028

Nobody could get near Jackson Dwang

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
98 Edition

The Posta Rangers Post

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Jun 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Victor Majid

74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Posta Rangers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market12 Jun 2028

Kariobangi Sharks come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Posta Rangers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Elvis Noor 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 Posta Rangers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Jun 2028

A move Emmanuel Mensah would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Emmanuel Mensah is living that version at Posta Rangers, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match10 Jun 2028

Ebenezer Adukwaw’s goal not enough for Posta Rangers

Ebenezer Adukwaw scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AFC Leopards, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Words at Posta Rangers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernard Odhiambo 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.

Market12 Jun 2028

Posta Rangers sign Emmanuel Mensah, one for the future

Emmanuel Mensah is 20, and Posta Rangers have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market12 Jun 2028

Posta Rangers sign Sam Cacace, one for the future

Sam Cacace is 19, and Posta Rangers have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market12 Jun 2028

The Jackson Dwang story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jackson Dwang signs something — a contract at Posta Rangers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

60 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Sep 2027

Tommy Smith damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Francis Garbett is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Sam Van Hattum has improved at 29, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief