Erick Dala

Striker - Jomo Cosmos U18
12 Feb 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Erick Dala

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The Jomo Cosmos Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

10 matches without a win for Jomo Cosmos

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Jomo Cosmos are no longer polite ones.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Jomo Cosmos

1‑4 against Orlando Pirates, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A falling-out at Jomo Cosmos

Judas Moseamedi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Jomo Cosmos promote Erick Dala from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Erick Dala 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Judas Moseamedi at his very best

Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Jomo Cosmos.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Jomo Cosmos dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑4 defeat, delivered by Erick Ngcobo to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout

Aden Dreyer knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Jomo Cosmos, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

A long afternoon for Aden Dreyer

Beaten 4 times, with 2 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

In brief