The AS Bakaridjan Courier
Market5 Oct 2026
Ikechukwu Nwabueze puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AS Bakaridjan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Souleymane Dramé runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tebogo Masemola is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at AS Bakaridjan
Aboubacar Haïdara 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
AS Bakaridjan come up short against Afrique Foot Elite
Afrique Foot Elite left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bourama Diallo has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about AS Bakaridjan and Afrique Foot Elite in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Graduation day at AS Bakaridjan
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.
Market5 Oct 2026
AS Bakaridjan promote Kalifa Keita from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kalifa Keita 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.
In brief
- Market Lassana Soumare steps up from the AS Bakaridjan academy
- Market One of our own: Ibrahim Sissoko joins the AS Bakaridjan first team
- Squad No hiding place for Aboubacar Haïdara