The Abia Warriors Post
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Paul Samson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market4 Jan 2027
Azubuike Casmir 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 The request is on a desk at Abia Warriors, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
Amadi James has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Abia Warriors they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Chukwuemeka Obioma in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Abia Warriors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Abia Warriors
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match2 Jan 2027
Rangers International take the points off Abia Warriors
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market4 Jan 2027
Aminu Balogun steps up from the Abia Warriors academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aminu Balogun 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Samuel Akpan joins the Abia Warriors first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Akpan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad4 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Maxwell Kangeshima
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxwell Kangeshima, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Squad Words at Abia Warriors training over how hard people work
- Squad Abia Warriors pick somebody else ahead of Maxwell Kangeshima
- Boardroom Abia Warriors turn down the training-ground plan