The Wa All Stars Courier
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Joseph Wakaso runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 54. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Andre Ofori out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Wa All Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Baba Atiemo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Wa All Stars
Junaid Sait 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Abbey Benson has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Wa All Stars
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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Wa All Stars promote Kwame Addo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kwame Addo 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Albert Asante joins the Wa All Stars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Albert Asante is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Sep 2027
Wa All Stars promote Francis Annan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Francis Annan 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 Jonathan Asante steps up from the Wa All Stars academy
- Match Gladson Paintsil the difference as Wa All Stars beat Berekum Chelsea
- Player ratings Gladson Paintsil was the difference for Wa All Stars