The Gazelle Garoua Courier
Match1 Mar 2027
Gazelle Garoua finish in position 10
24 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Gazelle Garoua
Bernard Ovoke 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.
Match27 Feb 2027
Cotonsport Garoua take the points off Gazelle Garoua
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Christian Bella gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Edgar Ekambi to a room that had heard them before.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Gazelle Garoua
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sony Farell Evina was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Bryan Ramses Wirsiy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A Gazelle Garoua teenager takes the young player award
Jude Enow Enow is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A first team debut at 14 for Marcel Ntcham
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 14. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
In brief
- The dugout No place in the plan for Dave Tessa
- The dugout Saidou Nouhou knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Hassan Ibrahim talk will not go away