Marked for Hassan Tokindang
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 May 2028
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Algoy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market29 May 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AS Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 May 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hassan Tokindang and AS Algoy agree another 3 years.
The dugout29 May 2028
Issa Mbainaissem asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout29 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Doungous, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Steady
Match3 Nov 2027
AS Algoy bow out of the cup
Stars Jeunes Talents go through and AS Algoy go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad8 Nov 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Ezechiel Ngaradoumbe, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
This is not rotation. Ezechiel Mbainaissem has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at AS Algoy is pretending otherwise.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Oumar Doungous scored one and made one — 7.94
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.94, and 2 involvements.
Squad8 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AS Algoy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match6 Nov 2027
A goal on 93 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Adam Djimet
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Adam Djimet has come out of that comparison in the side, and AS Algoy have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
94 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Algoy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Renaissance, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market5 Oct 2026
Issa Abba 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 AS Algoy can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Graduation day at AS Algoy
4 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ezechiel Mbainaissem 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mahamat Haroun 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Brahim Tokindang has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market5 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hassan Tokindang 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.