Marked for Alexandr Mischenko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Jan 2028
Matvey Bardachev 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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ilja Kalachev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Mischenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Valeriy Senko has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Slavia Mozyr 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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andrey Solovey’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Matvey Bardachev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Guljigit Borubaev 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Slavia Mozyr are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Ilya Verenich 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.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
Valeriy Senko 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 Valeriy Senko is on it.
Loan watch29 Nov 2027
23 appearances at Niva and the goals keep coming. Slavia Mozyr are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market29 Nov 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrey Solovey signs something — a contract at Slavia Mozyr or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Slavia Mozyr will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Oct 2027
A fracture rules Artem Sadchenko out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slavia Mozyr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ilja Kalachev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandr Mischenko commits to Slavia Mozyr for another 4 years.
Market11 Oct 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Slavia Mozyr has been clear about where Alexandr Dzhigero stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy Slesarchuk, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead11 Oct 2027
Arsenal Dzerzhinsk next, and one man in the Slavia Mozyr dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
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 Terentiy Lutsevich is on it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ivan Belikov 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Alexandr Derzhinskiy 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 dugout4 Jan 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Ivan Belikov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ivan Belikov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market16 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Valeriy Senko
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Valeriy Senko will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ivan Belikov 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 Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pavel Chikida was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ivan Belikov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ivan Belikov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pavel Chikida, and the manager let it.