Adalberto

Central Defender - Retired
24 Jun 2028
Saturday
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Marked for Adalberto

16 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Adam Adakhajiev out for 28 days

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

Squad

A falling-out at Zhetysu

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

Squad

Rafkat Aslan 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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The Zhetysu Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Adam Adakhajiev breaks a bone — 59 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

The decline has begun for Serikzhan Muzhikov

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Zhetysu is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad

Words at Zhetysu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rafkat Aslan 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

68 days out for Adam Adakhajiev after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Zhetysu will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Time is catching up with Adalberto

Everybody at Zhetysu saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 39 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

Squad

Home is on Marko Živanović'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; Zhetysu are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

10 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Adam Adakhajiev out for 75 days

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

Squad

A muscle injury and 16 days out for Askhat Baltabekov

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Zhetysu will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Adalberto stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adalberto and Zhetysu agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief