The Bloemfontein Celtic Sentinel
Squad25 Jan 2027
Hlompho Ngcobo damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Camilo Durán is carrying Bloemfontein Celtic
21 goals and a season average of 7.71. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match23 Jan 2027
Camilo Durán leads the rout of Jomo Cosmos
3‑0, and Camilo Durán took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bloemfontein Celtic tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Both of them Camilo Durán's — 9.73
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market25 Jan 2027
Bloemfontein Celtic sell Haissem Hassan for $23.9M
Haissem Hassan has left for Mainz 05 in a $23.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match25 Jan 2027
Bloemfontein Celtic up to position 2
65 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match23 Jan 2027
Bloemfontein Celtic cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Shumaira Mheuka at 19 — 8.98
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Shumaira Mheuka did not need any: 8.98, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
Bloemfontein Celtic sell a favourite for $23.9M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Haissem Hassan was one of the reasons people came, and $23.9M does not replace that by itself.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Bloemfontein Celtic
- Match Bloemfontein Celtic make home a hard place to visit
- Squad A row about effort at Bloemfontein Celtic