The Qingdao West Coast Chronicle
Squad8 Mar 2027
Abdul Aziz Yakubu takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Davidson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Davidson and Qingdao West Coast agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Home is on Nélson da Luz's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Qingdao West Coast are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
4 academy graduates step up at Qingdao West Coast
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match6 Mar 2027
Abdul Aziz Yakubu sends Qingdao West Coast past Tianjin Jinmen Tiger
It finished 3‑1, and it was Abdul Aziz Yakubu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Qingdao West Coast.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
One of those days for Abdul Aziz Yakubu
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market8 Mar 2027
Qingdao West Coast promote Cao Peng from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cao Peng 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Ge Junwei joins the Qingdao West Coast first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ge Junwei is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Qingdao West Coast promote Ge Boxuan from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ge Boxuan 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: Lu Bo joins the Qingdao West Coast first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jian Tao
- Squad Words at Qingdao West Coast training over how hard people work