Patrick Ondoa

Left Wingback - Gazelle Garoua
11 May 2029
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Marked for Patrick Ondoa

137 Edition

The Gazelle Garoua Courier

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market12 Mar 2029

Arsene Mekila has one foot out of the door

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

Player ratings12 Mar 2029

Isaac Maben, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.62

A mark of 7.62 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

Junior Leboum Meli frozen out at Gazelle Garoua

This is not rotation. Junior Leboum Meli has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Gazelle Garoua is pretending otherwise.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Blaise Loïc Tsagué 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 Gazelle Garoua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match10 Mar 2029

Gazelle Garoua come up short against Dynamo Douala

Dynamo Douala left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Isaac Maben 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 dugout12 Mar 2029

The manager makes an example of Housseini Ousmanou

“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.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Patrick Ondoa signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Patrick Ondoa and Gazelle Garoua agree another 3 years.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

Marcel Ntcham faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marcel Ntcham after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

Back issues
110 Edition

The Gazelle Garoua Courier

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

Maxime Embolo is out at Gazelle Garoua

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Market4 Sep 2028

Sony Farell Evina has said yes to Fauve Azur Elite

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Gazelle Garoua have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

Marcel Ntcham takes charge at Gazelle Garoua

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Conrad Njuma gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Conrad Njuma has just signed for Gazelle Garoua, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

Deadline passes with 9 signed and 9 gone

That is the business done at Gazelle Garoua until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets4 Sep 2028

An offer of $310.0K for Manuel Mbollo

Gazelle Garoua have gone to Fauve Azur Elite with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Words exchanged at Gazelle Garoua

Blaise Loïc Tsagué 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.

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

5 academy graduates step up at Gazelle Garoua

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.

Market4 Sep 2028

Gazelle Garoua promote Patrick Ondoa from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Ondoa 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