Matteo Dashi

Central Midfielder - Legion
9 Nov 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Matteo Dashi

14 Edition

The Legion Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Both of them Matteo Dashi's — 8.46

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Jhon Morcillo, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82

A mark of 7.82 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.

Match

No end in sight to Legion's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Legion has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Jhon Morcillo 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 Legion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Matteo Dashi among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Matteo Dashi on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Legion and Spartak Nalchik.

Squad

Words at Legion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yaroslav Matvienko 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 415% of everything Legion 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.

The terraces

Legion supporters have found a favourite in Matteo Dashi

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Matteo Dashi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Gleb Zakharov at his very best

Marked 8.65. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Legion.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Legion Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Legion bow out of the cup

Druzhba go through and Legion 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.

Match

No end in sight to Legion's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Legion has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Mikhail Nedospasov 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 Legion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Legion come up short against Dinamo Stavropol

Dinamo Stavropol left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Nikolay Edjibia out for 31 days

The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Nikolay Edjibia, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kirill Gurov

“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.

Squad

Costly mistake from Alexandr Shashkov

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Alexandr Shashkov knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Arseny Belov

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Jamaludin Ipaev never got going

5.38 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

3 Edition

The Legion Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

A debut Matteo Dashi will not forget — 7.40

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.40 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Yaroslav Matvienko hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Legion can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Kiril Korkh stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kiril Korkh and Legion agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Jamaludin Ipaev 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 Legion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Legion come up short against Kuban Holding

Kuban Holding left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Anzor Tokaev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

7 new faces, and Legion are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

Legion sign Arseny Belov, one for the future

Arseny Belov is 20, and Legion have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

A long bet from Legion on Matteo Dashi

He is 19, and nobody at Legion signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief