Marked for Filip Przybułek
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Uneasy
Squad10 Jan 2028
83 days out for Nikita Melnikov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Slavia Mozyr will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Grudko and Slavia Mozyr agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Jan 2028
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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Evgeniy Shevchenko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Ivan Grudko 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market11 Oct 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Slavia Mozyr, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Ivan Mazurkevich: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Slavia Mozyr have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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
Vitaliy Likhtin 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladislav Ignatjev, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead11 Oct 2027
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Evgeniy Abramovich’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Slavia Mozyr needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Slavia Mozyr, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Crisis
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market12 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match10 Apr 2027
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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Ilja Kalachev 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
0‑1 to Vitebsk, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Hleb Nekhaichik left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kirill Chernook was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Filip Przybułek and Slavia Mozyr agree another 3 years.
The dugout12 Apr 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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Uneasy
Match31 Mar 2027
Niva go through and Slavia Mozyr go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Slavia Mozyr — 7.45
1 for Anton Lukashov, marked 7.45, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slavia Mozyr may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market5 Apr 2027
Only the photograph left for Artem Krent
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Artem Krent will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slavia Mozyr the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A move Filip Przybułek would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Filip Przybułek is living that version at Slavia Mozyr, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Ricky Ngatchou 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match3 Apr 2027
Late, late show earns Slavia Mozyr a point
Minute 91, against Torpedo-BelAZ, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.