The Canon Yaounde Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Juste Koulou out for 125 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Canon Yaounde will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Clinton N'jie runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market6 Sep 2027
Yves Aimé Zoa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Canon Yaounde can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Karim Bello is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Karim Bello 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 Canon Yaounde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Canon Yaounde
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Canon Yaounde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Issa Bangfome 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.
The terraces6 Sep 2027
The crowd has taken to Dilane Ekongolo
At 23 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Marcel Etame steps up from the Canon Yaounde academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcel Etame has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Canon Yaounde promote Patrick Ondoa from within
- Market One of our own: Boris Kunde joins the Canon Yaounde first team
- Player ratings One of those days for Dilane Ekongolo