The Kwara United Sentinel
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Adeshina Gata runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Kwara United count the cost of losing Chisom Ngomere
57 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Kwara United
Johnmark Atule 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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Graduation day at Kwara United
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Abdullahi Mohammad attracts admirers
The name of Abdullahi Mohammad has come up in conversations Kwara United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market4 Jan 2027
Kwara United promote Abraham Adeleye from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abraham Adeleye 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Anthony Awoniyi joins the Kwara United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anthony Awoniyi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Moses Adeleye joins the Kwara United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Moses Adeleye 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
Musa Afeez 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.
In brief
- Squad Jimoh Gbadamosi gets it from the manager
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Kwara United
- Match Kwara United and Nasarawa United cancel each other out