The Canon Yaounde Gazette
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Martin Ako Assomo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Cotonsport Garoua come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Canon Yaounde did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 2026
The PWD Bamenda deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Zacharie Ebogo reports back to Canon Yaounde with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Franck Ipoua 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Canon Yaounde
Junior Dande 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Graduation day at Canon Yaounde
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Issa Bangfome 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Maxime Moukoudi steps up from the Canon Yaounde academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Maxime Moukoudi 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
- Match Franck Steve Belobo rescues a point for Canon Yaounde
- Boardroom Canon Yaounde turn down the training-ground plan
- Squad Jean Ousama makes his debut at 17