Yonathan Del Valle

Striker - Prykarpattia
4 Apr 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Yonathan Del Valle

87 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Saulo: 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.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Yonathan Del Valle puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Prykarpattia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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.

In brief

Back issues
82 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Prykarpattia

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ibrahima Dabo

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Romario Da Silva

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Romario Da Silva, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

95% of the income goes out in wages at Prykarpattia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match

Prykarpattia and Feniks take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

81 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Andrii Bobynets keeps Prykarpattia in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Nobody wants to play Prykarpattia right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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.

Match

Prykarpattia find a way past Bukovyna

Bukovyna made Prykarpattia work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Ibrahima Dabo in the eights

A performance of 8.48 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Vasyl Bundash in the eights

A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Oleksandr Zhmuida

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleksandr Zhmuida, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Danylo Holub

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Yonathan Del Valle wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Prykarpattia know it.

In brief

71 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Prykarpattia spell it out for Roman Shevchenko

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Roman Shevchenko has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match

Whatever happens, Prykarpattia do not lose

12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Nazar Prykhodko asks to leave Prykarpattia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Romario Da Silva 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Myroslav Trofymiuk

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Myroslav Trofymiuk, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Danylo Holub in the eights

A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Nazar Prykhodko

Marked 8.48 — 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

Yonathan Del Valle wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Prykarpattia know it.

Match

Danylo Holub rescues a point for Prykarpattia

It needed Danylo Holub to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Inhulets, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

65 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Yonathan Del Valle 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 Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

6 unbeaten for Prykarpattia

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Prykarpattia did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings

One of those days for Cristian Santos

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.74, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

No hiding place for Romario Da Silva

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Romario Da Silva, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Danylo Holub

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Costly mistake from Andrii Bobynets

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

Match

Prykarpattia share the spoils with Podillia

A 1‑1 draw with Podillia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Boardroom

Prykarpattia counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Prykarpattia now.

In brief

64 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nazar Prykhodko puts it in writing

“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 Prykarpattia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Yonathan Del Valle: 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.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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.

Match

Myroslav Trofymiuk the difference as Prykarpattia beat Kudrivka

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Myroslav Trofymiuk. 4‑2 against Kudrivka, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Nazar Prykhodko

Marked 9.17 — 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ibrahima Dabo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.91, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Myroslav Trofymiuk in the eights

A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vasyl Tsiutsiura

“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.

Player ratings

Vasyl Frantsuz gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Prykarpattia lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

In brief

63 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Vasyl Tsiutsiura 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 Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.

Match

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

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

Player ratings

Danylo Holub runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Romario Da Silva 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Myroslav Trofymiuk

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Myroslav Trofymiuk, and the manager let it.

Squad

Yonathan Del Valle wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Prykarpattia know it.

Market

A long bet from Prykarpattia on Dominik Klíma

He is 20, and nobody at Prykarpattia signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Match

No goals between Prykarpattia and Victoriia Sumy

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Victoriia Sumy will be the happier side with the point.

Squad

Vasyl Tsiutsiura knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Prykarpattia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

59 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Nazar Prykhodko 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 Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Ibrahima Dabo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

58 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yonathan Del Valle puts it in writing

“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 Prykarpattia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Vasyl Tsiutsiura out for 68 days

The medical room confirms 68 days on the sidelines for Vasyl Tsiutsiura, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nazar Prykhodko

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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 ratings

Danylo Holub in the eights

A performance of 9.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Ibrahima Dabo sends Prykarpattia past Probiy

It finished 2‑1, and it was Ibrahima Dabo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Prykarpattia.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Romario Da Silva

“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.

Player ratings

Ibrahima Dabo in the eights

A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Boardroom

Wages eat 95% of everything Prykarpattia 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.

In brief

54 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Prykarpattia lose Vasyl Tsiutsiura

96 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Romario Da Silva 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Romario Da Silva

“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.

Player ratings

Ibrahima Dabo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

No goals between Prykarpattia and Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Metalurh Zaporizhzhia will be the happier side with the point.

Player ratings

Yurii Radulskyi shuts the door

Defensive actions: 12, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

53 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

As if he never left: Pavlo Tymchyk returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Pavlo Tymchyk is a Prykarpattia player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

Vitaliy Burda is a Prykarpattia player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Yaroslav Rebrov is a Prykarpattia player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Pavlo Haiduchok is a Prykarpattia player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Romario Da Silva 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 ratings

Romario Da Silva runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Ibrahima Dabo 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.

Match

Prykarpattia come up short against Poltava

Poltava left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Yonathan Del Valle wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Prykarpattia know it.

In brief

52 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Prykarpattia say no — this time

The offer from Kudrivka for Cristian Santos was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Yonathan Del Valle asks to leave Prykarpattia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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.

In brief

48 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Yonathan Del Valle asks to leave Prykarpattia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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.

Squad

Yurii Radulskyi stays put

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Oleksandr Zhmuida

“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

Somebody is after Andrii Lipovuz’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Andrii Lipovuz suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Prykarpattia have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

Market

The Vasyl Frantsuz talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Prykarpattia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

47 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Nazar Prykhodko 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 Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Vladyslav Chushenko stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Vladyslav Chushenko and Prykarpattia agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

44 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Vladyslav Chushenko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Prykarpattia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Yonathan Del Valle 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 Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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.

In brief

43 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Nazar Prykhodko puts it in writing

“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 Prykarpattia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Anton Nedyalkov 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.

Squad

Ivan Markelov 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Anton Nedyalkov 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 124% of everything Prykarpattia 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Elias Telles

“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.

In brief

36 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Yonathan Del Valle asks to leave Prykarpattia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Cristian Santos signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristian Santos commits to Prykarpattia for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Anton Nedyalkov 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.

In brief

35 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Anton Nedyalkov 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Home is on Yonathan Del Valle's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Prykarpattia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Yurii Radulskyi knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Prykarpattia, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Squad Saulo is not doing himself any favours
32 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Yonathan Del Valle asks to leave Prykarpattia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Saulo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saulo commits to Prykarpattia for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Anton Nedyalkov 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.

In brief

28 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yonathan Del Valle 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 Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Yonathan Del Valle: 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.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ivan Tyshchenko

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Anton Nedyalkov 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 ratings

A defender's afternoon for Manolis Siopis

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

No hiding place for Oleksandr Zhmuida

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleksandr Zhmuida, and the manager let it.

Squad

This league is too small for Elias Telles

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Prykarpattia will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Serhii Shvets is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Prykarpattia has been clear about where Serhii Shvets stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Elias Telles

Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

26 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A day Myroslav Trofymiuk will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Vasyl Bundash: 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.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Pavlo Mykhalchuk asks to leave Prykarpattia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Manolis Siopis 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

One of those days for Myroslav Trofymiuk

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.56, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Myroslav Trofymiuk the difference as Prykarpattia beat Podillia

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Myroslav Trofymiuk. 3‑1 against Podillia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Boardroom

Wages eat 208% of everything Prykarpattia 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.

Squad

Yonathan Del Valle wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Prykarpattia know it.

Player ratings

Romario Da Silva 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.

In brief

24 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ivan Markelov: 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.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Yonathan Del Valle 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 Prykarpattia can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ivan Tyshchenko

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

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

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

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Anton Nedyalkov 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 ratings

Nothing got past Andrii Lipovuz

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

No hiding place for Maksym Protsiv

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksym Protsiv, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Vladyslav Chushenko

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Match

No goals between Prykarpattia and Ahrobiznes

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Ahrobiznes will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

22 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Yurii Radulskyi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Prykarpattia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ivan Tyshchenko

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Anton Nedyalkov 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 335% of everything Prykarpattia 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.

Match

Prykarpattia come up short against UCSA

UCSA left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Vasyl Henyk

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vasyl Henyk, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Prykarpattia Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yonathan Del Valle keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Prykarpattia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Manolis Siopis 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 Prykarpattia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Vasyl Bundash

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vasyl Bundash, and the manager let it.

In brief

18 Edition

The Prykarpattia Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Yonathan Del Valle asks to leave Prykarpattia

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Maksym Protsiv: 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.” Prykarpattia have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Manolis Siopis

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ivan Tyshchenko

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Romario Da Silva 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.

Boardroom

398% of the income goes out in wages at Prykarpattia

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Match

Prykarpattia get the job done against Chernihiv

A 1‑0 win over Chernihiv, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Home is on Yonathan Del Valle's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Prykarpattia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

No hiding place for Yurii Radulskyi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yurii Radulskyi, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Prykarpattia Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

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Nothing got past Manolis Siopis

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 33 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

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Ivan Tyshchenko runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Prykarpattia

Myroslav Trofymiuk 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.

Match

Prykarpattia see off Ahrobiznes

Three points for Prykarpattia, 2‑0 the final word against Ahrobiznes in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Ivan Markelov 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Myroslav Trofymiuk

Marked 8.35 — 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Vasyl Bundash

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Romario Da Silva 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 Romario Da Silva trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Cristian Santos still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Prykarpattia would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

9 Edition

The Pumas UNAM Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Pumas UNAM

Nathan Silva 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.

Match

Pumas UNAM find a way past Santos Laguna

Santos Laguna made Pumas UNAM work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Nathan Silva

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Guillermo Martínez

Marked 8.48 — 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.

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One of those days for Uriel Antuna

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

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One of those days for Rodrigo López

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Uriel Antuna is off the mark for Pumas UNAM

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Jesús Rivas

“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

Ángel Rico 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.

In brief