The CotonTchad Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ifeanyi Egwim is carrying CotonTchad
30 goals and a season average of 7.81. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match6 Feb 2027
CotonTchad run riot against Galactik
4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match6 Feb 2027
CotonTchad make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now CotonTchad have 7 straight wins of it.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A brace, and Ifeanyi Egwim takes the afternoon — 8.80
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ifeanyi Egwim provided it, and the 8.80 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Age has not caught Gbolahan Salami yet — 8.95
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ilisoni Lolaivalu keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” CotonTchad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match6 Feb 2027
CotonTchad make home a hard place to visit
10 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at CotonTchad
Meshack Maphangule 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
CotonTchad promote Abdoulaye Haroun from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Abdoulaye Haroun 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Abdoulaye Ngaradoumbe joins the CotonTchad first team
- Market One of our own: Narcisse Moustapha joins the CotonTchad first team
- Market CotonTchad promote Djibrine Souleymane from within