Andre Mbia

Goalkeeper - Cotonsport Garoua U18
19 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andre Mbia

41 Edition

The Cotonsport Garoua Chronicle

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Andre Mbia out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cotonsport Garoua lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Frédérique Dawaï has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cotonsport Garoua they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

A falling-out at Cotonsport Garoua

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

Squad

Collins Fai 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kufre Eta

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

The dugout

When it matters, Allan Nyom plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Marcelin Mbahbi asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Marcelin Mbahbi question follows Cotonsport Garoua around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Marcelin Mbahbi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Kassim Doumbia runs his contract down

7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Cotonsport Garoua money.

In brief

Back issues
40 Edition

The Cotonsport Garoua Chronicle

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Andre Mbia out for 24 days

24 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cotonsport Garoua lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Nobody above Cotonsport Garoua

First, on 56 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Market

Only the photograph left for Yvan Aloukou

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yvan Aloukou will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cotonsport Garoua the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Collins Fai signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Collins Fai and Cotonsport Garoua agree another 2 years.

Squad

Allan Nyom 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 Cotonsport Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Cotonsport Garoua

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

In brief

7 Edition

The Cotonsport Garoua Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Jean Marie Dongou leads the rout of Aigle Royal de Moungo

4‑0, and Jean Marie Dongou took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Cotonsport Garoua tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Both of them Jean Marie Dongou's — 8.16

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.16, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Andre Mbia stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Cotonsport Garoua — 6.05

1 for Frank Angong, marked 6.05, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Market

Roger Emga’s move to Panthere du Nde falls through

The deal that would have taken Roger Emga to Panthere du Nde has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Cotonsport Garoua with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

Words at Cotonsport Garoua training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabrice Olinga is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Frank Angong

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cotonsport Garoua

Gabin Allambatnan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

Frank Angong is still paying for one afternoon at Cotonsport Garoua

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief