Modibo Soumare

Left Forward - Real Bamako U18
24 Feb 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Modibo Soumare

100 Edition

The Real Bamako Chronicle

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Israel Oladeji has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Real Bamako they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Real Bamako

Banou Cissé 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.

Market

Afrique Foot Elite expected to open talks for Modibo Soumare

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Real Bamako will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
73 Edition

The Real Bamako Chronicle

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Adama Keïta

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

Match

Whatever happens, Real Bamako do not lose

13 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.

Match

Nobody wins at Real Bamako

15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Real Bamako up to position 3

32 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gouné Niangadou

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Real Bamako

Banou Cissé 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.

In brief