Juninho

Left Midfielder - Katsina United
14 Jan 2046
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Marked for Juninho

986 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

19 Jun 2045
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Jun 2045

Davud Jusič damages knee ligaments — 59 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market19 Jun 2045

Chidera Moffi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Katsina United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market19 Jun 2045

Kun Khalifat join the queue for Osayi Awaziem

Add another name to the list: Kun Khalifat have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Osayi Awaziem. The answer from Katsina United has not changed — yet.

Squad19 Jun 2045

Juninho says Katsina United went back on their word

“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.

Squad19 Jun 2045

Kyaharkat Danyaro pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Match17 Jun 2045

Katsina United come up short against Ikorodu City

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

In brief

Back issues
938 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

18 Jul 2044
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings18 Jul 2044

Age has not caught Usman Abba yet — 7.83

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad18 Jul 2044

Juninho: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Katsina United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market18 Jul 2044

Katsina United turn down Nasarawa United for Anthony Olagunju

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad18 Jul 2044

Davud Jusič 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.

Match16 Jul 2044

Usman Abba the difference as Katsina United beat Warri Wolves

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Usman Abba. 2‑1 against Warri Wolves, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces18 Jul 2044

The crowd has taken to Anthony Lookman

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

930 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

23 May 2044
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad23 May 2044

Gabriel Onyekuru says Katsina United went back on their word

“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.

Match21 May 2044

A bad afternoon for Katsina United against Bendel Insurance

0‑2 to Bendel Insurance, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings23 May 2044

Nobody could get near Gladson Gyan

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

926 Edition

The Katsina United Herald

25 Apr 2044
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match20 Apr 2044

The cup run ends for Katsina United

1‑1 against Kwara United, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad25 Apr 2044

Juan Ignacio Blanco decides it from twelve yards

1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Squad25 Apr 2044

Davud Jusič 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 terraces25 Apr 2044

Katsina United supporters have found a favourite in Gabriel Onyekuru

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Gabriel Onyekuru has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match23 Apr 2044

Niger Tornadoes take the points off Katsina United

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad25 Apr 2044

The manager makes an example of Juan Ignacio Blanco

“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.

Player ratings25 Apr 2044

Nobody could get near Chidera Moffi

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings25 Apr 2044

Ndidi Okereke misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Player ratings25 Apr 2044

The afternoon belonged to Gabriel Onyekuru

A mark of 7.62, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief