Samuel Afful

Right Back - Berekum Chelsea U18
24 Feb 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Samuel Afful

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The Berekum Chelsea Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sazi Gumbi 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 The request is on a desk at Berekum Chelsea, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Emmanuel Sarpong scores twice — 8.34

Two goals and a mark of 8.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Real improvement from Belal Ateya at Berekum Chelsea

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Belal Ateya is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

El Mehdi Karnass 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 Berekum Chelsea this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kelvin Andoh has improved at 32, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Berekum Chelsea

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.

Match

Berekum Chelsea make home a hard place to visit

9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Bakr El Helali 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.

Match

Emmanuel Sarpong sends Berekum Chelsea past Wa All Stars

It finished 2‑0, and it was Emmanuel Sarpong’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Berekum Chelsea.

In brief