Marked for Brahim Allamine
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Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑4 against AS Algoy, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Yaya Karim beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Abdelaziz Issa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Foullah Edifice 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑4 Abdoulaye Tokindang left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yves Allarabaye, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against AS Etat Major in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
7 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Renaissance, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
105% of the income goes out in wages at Foullah Edifice
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Benjamin Merba
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Benjamin Merba has come out of that comparison in the side, and Foullah Edifice have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Mbaiguedem, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 15. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Joël Djingar knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Joël Djingar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Yaya Karim runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Innocent Mbairamadji provided it, and the 8.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over AS DGSSIE, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
One of their own: Kita
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marcel Ninga ran the middle of the pitch — 7.25
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 7.25, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Abdoulaye Tokindang kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 14. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Foullah Edifice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Joël Djingar 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
AS PSI left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Marcel Ninga is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Abdoulaye Tokindang left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
4.04. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 14 years old, Brahim Allamine became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
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Steady
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1K — a club that wants Ahmat Mbainaissem enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The offer went to Stars Jeunes Talents this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
US Moursal wanted more than $1.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Constant Matoingue and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Adam Doungous is in the works
Foullah Edifice have made the call to Stars Jeunes Talents. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Brahim Allamine and Foullah Edifice agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The formation has left Joël Djingar behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Foullah Edifice will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moussa Souleymane, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Elect Sport waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Foullah Edifice is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at US Moursal is saying, and nobody at Foullah Edifice is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Foullah Edifice asked and Elect Sport said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Moussa Souleymane 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brahim Allamine is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ezechiel Hissein has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.