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Upbeat
Match25 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten Rodina 2
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match25 Sep 2027
Three points for Rodina 2 , 1-0 the final word against Kaluga in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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.
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Steady
Match18 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten Rodina 2
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 21, Nikita Savin is already the best thing here
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Rodina 2 have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad20 Sep 2027
92 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Nikita Savin At 21, Nikita Savin is already the best thing here
Match18 Sep 2027
Torpedo Miass made Rodina 2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Alexandr Stenyakin knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Steady
Squad23 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 121 days on the sidelines for Francisco Ayala , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rodina 2 have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match31 Jul 2027
Torpedo Miass made Rodina 2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“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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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rodina 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Dec 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 Dec 2026
Yegor Larionov knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rodina 2 , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rodina 2 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Rodina 2
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Rodina 2 are no longer polite ones.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 4 of the 20 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Match3 Oct 2026
Irtysh left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
Market5 Oct 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Arseny Khorin asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 18 years old, Ivan Vozrastov became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Market5 Oct 2026
The name of Daniel Svintsov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Rodina 2 say nothing, which says plenty.
Market5 Oct 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Alexandr Stenyakin may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Rodina 2
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Rodina 2 are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Daniel Svintsov reports back to Rodina 2 with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match12 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Rodina 2 did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rodina 2 , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Match12 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Dinamo Vladivostok defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 23 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Rodina 2 are won quietly and lost loudly.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Rodina 2 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1-0 win over Irtysh , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nikita Savin gets it from the manager“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.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Stenyakin and Rodina 2 agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rodina 2 have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1-1 draw with Kaluga leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Artem Beskibalny has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Rodina 2 .
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmitry Markitesov commits to Rodina 2 for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Gleb Knyazev
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.