Daniel Lopez

Left Midfielder - AS Korofina
23 Sep 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Lopez

113 Edition

The AS Korofina Sentinel

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at AS Korofina

Charles Likpa 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.

Squad

A row about effort at AS Korofina

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Souleymane Dramé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Isaac Puma

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isaac Puma, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
111 Edition

The AS Korofina Sentinel

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Charles Likpa 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 AS Korofina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Stade Malien tell AS Korofina: Nankoma Keïta is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Souleymane Dramé 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.

Market

Felix Verschoren already looking beyond AS Korofina

He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.

Market

A long bet from AS Korofina on Collins Nyakeya

He is 18, and nobody at AS Korofina signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

A long bet from AS Korofina on Daniel Lopez

He is 18, and nobody at AS Korofina signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Felix Verschoren stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Felix Verschoren and AS Korofina agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Bruno Almeida gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bruno Almeida is on it.

Squad

No place for Collins Nyakeya in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation AS Korofina are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief