Boris Mbarga

Right Forward - Canon Yaounde U18
3 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Boris Mbarga

6 Edition

The Canon Yaounde Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Armel Ndong Nze

46 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Canon Yaounde lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Yann Mbah Ndjock breaks a bone — 116 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Sunday Aniebet takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Yves Aimé Zoa hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Canon Yaounde can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Sunday Aniebet at 19 — 8.14

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sunday Aniebet did not need any: 8.14, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Franck Steve Belobo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Rodrigue Ella is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Canon Yaounde

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.

Match

Canon Yaounde find a way past Gazelle Garoua

Gazelle Garoua made Canon Yaounde work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief