Ahmed Eze

Right Midfielder - Barau U18
29 Jun 2029
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Marked for Ahmed Eze

113 Edition

The Barau Courier

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad25 Sep 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Moses Tsehuan

61 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barau lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces25 Sep 2028

Fear has settled over Barau

Position 19, 29 points, and a crowd that arrives already braced. Relegation seasons are lost in exactly this atmosphere, and everybody who has lived through one recognises it immediately.

Match23 Sep 2028

No end in sight to Barau's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Barau has to find a result from somewhere.

Market25 Sep 2028

Ahmed Eze asks to leave Barau

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout25 Sep 2028

Stanley Oganbor frozen out at Barau

This is not rotation. Stanley Oganbor has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Barau is pretending otherwise.

Match23 Sep 2028

Barau come up short against Warri Wolves

Warri Wolves left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad25 Sep 2028

Joseph Atule makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout25 Sep 2028

No hiding place for Godwin Akpo

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

The dugout25 Sep 2028

Wilfred Chukwueze faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Wilfred Chukwueze after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at Barau
  • Player ratings Idris Saidu runs at them all day
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Emeka Nwabulu
Back issues
75 Edition

The Barau Courier

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Jan 2028

Emeka Nwabulu hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Barau can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Jan 2028

Emeka Nwabulu is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Barau will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Match1 Jan 2028

Whatever happens, Barau do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

Barau tie Wilfred Chukwueze down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Squad3 Jan 2028

Words exchanged at Barau

Henry Ezeonye 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.

Boardroom3 Jan 2028

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Barau

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market3 Jan 2028

Oscar Destiny attracts admirers

The name of Oscar Destiny has come up in conversations Barau were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market3 Jan 2028

One of our own: Ahmed Eze joins the Barau first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ahmed Eze is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market3 Jan 2028

David Awoniyi steps up from the Barau academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Awoniyi 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.

In brief