The Avangard Courier
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Victor Kozyrev out for 68 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Avangard will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match30 Sep 2026
Avangard bow out of the cup
Krasnodar go through and Avangard go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market5 Oct 2026
Nicolás Soria puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Avangard, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A first appearance Mateo González will want to forget — 5.22
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.22, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vladislav Tereshkin says Avangard went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Avangard
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dmitry Zakharov 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 Avangard this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Enrique Céspedes 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 234% of everything Avangard earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Match A bad afternoon for Avangard against Murom
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Enrique Céspedes
- Market Still no ink between Avangard and Denis Traigel