Moussa Toure

Attacking Midfielder (L) - US Forces Armees U18
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Process

Marked for Moussa Toure

64 Edition

The US Forces Armees Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at US Forces Armees 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.

Squad

Aly Keïta 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.

Match

Etoiles du Mande take the points off US Forces Armees

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

The dugout

Moussa Sissoko 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 ratings

Usman Abiodun beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Djigui Haidara faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Djigui Haidara after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Mamadou Maguiraga has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at US Forces Armees will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

Moussa Toure, 15, gets his chance

Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 15. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.

Market

The Moussa Sissoko story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Moussa Sissoko signs something — a contract at US Forces Armees or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
62 Edition

The US Forces Armees Gazette

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The drought breaks for US Forces Armees

15 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and US Bougouba were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

The dugout

Bamidele Ayodamole: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” US Forces Armees have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Moussa Diallo out for 21 days

The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Moussa Diallo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

Simão Brito turns down US Forces Armees

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Moussa Sissoko signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Moussa Sissoko and US Forces Armees agree another 2 years.

Market

Mamadou Ndoye comes home

The shirt still fits. Mamadou Ndoye is back at US Forces Armees, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Words exchanged at US Forces Armees

Moussa Diallo 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.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at US Forces Armees

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Player ratings

Bourama Boiré 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.

In brief