The Zorya Courier
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Juninho
97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zorya lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match22 Aug 2026
Zorya let it slip despite Marian Shved
Marian Shved had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Kudrivka were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Market24 Aug 2026
Artem Slesar asks to leave Zorya
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marian Shved takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Artem Slesar, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.06
A mark of 8.06 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Zorya rebuffed over Karim Konaté
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Red Bull Salzburg have kept their man, and Zorya go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Marian Shved at his very best
Marked 9.38. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zorya.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Zorya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jordan 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Zorya
Marian Shved and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- Match Zorya and Kudrivka take a point apiece
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Roman Salenko
- The dugout The view from the dugout