The ES Ben Aknoun Gazette
Market6 Sep 2027
Aziz Benabdi 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 The request is on a desk at ES Ben Aknoun, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 11 in, 10 out at ES Ben Aknoun
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A falling-out at ES Ben Aknoun
Abdeljalil Saâd and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Graduation day at ES Ben Aknoun
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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Mohamed Benchaira 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
ES Ben Aknoun promote Aissa Tahrat from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aissa Tahrat 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
ES Ben Aknoun promote Nabil Atal from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nabil Atal 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
ES Ben Aknoun promote Mehdi Bensebaini from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mehdi Bensebaini 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
ES Ben Aknoun let a promise lapse
A date was given and it came and went. Nobody upstairs will call it a broken promise, and nobody downstairs will call it anything else for a long time.
In brief
- Squad A step back for Idir Mokeddem at ES Ben Aknoun
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mohamed Messaoud Salem
- Squad Badis Bouamama moves up the pecking order