Marked for Taaniel Usta
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rauno Sappinen commits to Flora for another 2 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Flora
Tristan Toomas Teeväli 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Flora
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Glaybson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Flora
Glaybson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Flora
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mihhail Kolobov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Triumph
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Flora have won it
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Rauno Sappinen obliged against Paide. 3‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Flora.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match4 Nov 2026
Nobody wants to play Flora right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Flora
Tristan Toomas Teeväli 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Glaybson 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 terraces9 Nov 2026
Flora supporters have found a favourite in Taaniel Usta
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Taaniel Usta 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
One of our own: Erik Pikk joins the Flora first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erik Pikk is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Evert Grünvald
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Flora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Flora
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mihhail Kolobov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Taaniel Usta gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Taaniel Usta is on it.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Flora
Glaybson 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Flora, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Rauno Sappinen has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Flora will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Flora training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Kalmõkov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Glaybson moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Flora than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Flora this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Flora
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Glaybson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager plants his flag on Glaybson
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Glaybson’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
Flora march on in the cup
Tammeka are out and Flora go through, 6‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Sergei Zenjov, 37, rolls back the years — 8.34
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.34 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Djoliba is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Djoliba keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 10.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match26 Aug 2026
Taaniel Usta among the goals in a wild afternoon
8 goals in one match, Taaniel Usta on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Flora and Tammeka.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergei Zenjov and Flora agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Flora
Tristan Toomas Teeväli 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paide have kept their man, and Flora go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Tulevik have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Andero Kaares. The answer from Flora has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Flora training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mihhail Kolobov 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.