Ushindi

Right Midfielder - Kyzyltash
22 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ushindi

13 Edition

The Kyzyltash Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Łukasz Piontek, 21, steals the show — 7.85

Marked 7.85 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

6 saves: Nikolay Prisyazhnenko was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The dugout

Alexandr Lapin: 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.” Kyzyltash have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kyzyltash

Oleg Bulatnikov 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.

Match

Kyzyltash see off Spartak Nalchik

Three points for Kyzyltash, 2‑1 the final word against Spartak Nalchik in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

A row about effort at Kyzyltash

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Demagin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Łukasz Piontek

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ushindi

Marked 8.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Kyzyltash

15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Kyzyltash Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Neri Taliandro, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.68

A mark of 7.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Boardroom

Kyzyltash close the window on a squad of their own making

29 in and 18 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Oleg Bulatnikov 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 Kyzyltash this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Yenisey tell Kyzyltash: Nazar Terpugov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Kyzyltash training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Demagin 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Ushindi

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Miroslav Kozlovsky steps up from the Kyzyltash academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Miroslav Kozlovsky has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Kyzyltash promote Savely Markov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Savely Markov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Match

Kyzyltash see off Kuban Holding

Three points for Kyzyltash, 1‑0 the final word against Kuban Holding in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

4 Edition

The Kyzyltash Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Kyzyltash tear PSK Pervorechenskoe apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against PSK Pervorechenskoe, and it could have been more.

Match

The small margins put Kyzyltash out

Out, 1‑3 to Volgar, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Neri Taliandro takes the afternoon — 8.29

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Neri Taliandro provided it, and the 8.29 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Matvey Zhustjev 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 Kyzyltash can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Nikolay Prisyazhnenko stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Konstantin Zabelin, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61

A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Kyzyltash — 7.65

1 for Artem Terentjev, marked 7.65, 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.

Player ratings

Oleg Bulatnikov goes up and wins it — 7.85

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.85 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

Medical ends the Matvey Zakharzhevskiy deal

Everything was agreed with Veles and then the doctor spoke. Kyzyltash have walked away from a signing on the advice of somebody who never saw him play, which is how it is supposed to work.

In brief