Walid Bencherifa

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42 Edition

The Olympique Akbou Gazette

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 May 2027

Words exchanged at Olympique Akbou

Walid Zamoum 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.

The dugout17 May 2027

Toufik Addadi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad17 May 2027

Yanis Méguirèche 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.

In brief

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18 Edition

The Olympique Akbou Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Nov 2026

Aly Dessé Sissoko breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Vintage Toufik Addadi — 8.01

At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.01, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Olympique Akbou

Oussama Darfalou and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match28 Nov 2026

Olympique Akbou find a way past MB Rouissat

MB Rouissat made Olympique Akbou work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Both jobs done by Kheireddine Benamrane — 7.20

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 7.20, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Nassim Ghoulam: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Louanes Zidi

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

Squad30 Nov 2026

Walid Bencherifa suspended

One booking too many, and Walid Bencherifa sits out. Olympique Akbou lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Oussama Darfalou does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

11 Edition

The Olympique Akbou Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Aly Dessé Sissoko out for 69 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Olympique Akbou will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Oussama Darfalou 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 Olympique Akbou this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Walid Bencherifa is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

In brief