Raúl Chalabe

Left Wingback - Okzhetpes
31 Aug 2026
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Process

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The Okzhetpes Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words at Okzhetpes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dmitriy Borodin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Tempers go at Okzhetpes

Toqtar Zhańğylyshbai 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.

Squad

Raúl Chalabe still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Okzhetpes would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

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The Okzhetpes Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Miroslav Lobantsev is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Miroslav Lobantsev: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

Okzhetpes bow out of the cup

Irtysh go through and Okzhetpes go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Oralkhan Ömirtaev

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Okzhetpes say no — this time

The offer from Shakhter for Nūrğaini Böribaev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Nūrğaini Böribaev has agreed to leave Okzhetpes for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Words at Okzhetpes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raúl Chalabe is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Toqtar Zhańğylyshbai 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 Okzhetpes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Raúl Chalabe has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Okzhetpes know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Player ratings

Raúl Chalabe 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.

In brief