The Zorya Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Artem Slesar at Zorya
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Artem Slesar is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Zorya
Greg Taylor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Dejan Popara stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dejan Popara and Zorya agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Zorya lose Oleh Strotskyi
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ihor Horbach 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Jordan 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 Jordan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Vladlen Yurchenko
- The dugout Ivan Nesterenko has become a man the manager trusts
- Looking ahead Zorya host Metalist
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Bohdan Kushnirenko