Abakar Akaev

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128 Edition

The Naftan Gazette

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Jan 2029

Egor Yuschenko falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Abakar Akaev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abakar Akaev commits to Naftan for another 3 years.

The dugout8 Jan 2029

Egor Yuschenko has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Naftan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

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86 Edition

The Naftan Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad20 Mar 2028

Artem Drabatovich 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 Naftan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match18 Mar 2028

Naftan come up short against Slavia Mozyr

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

The dugout20 Mar 2028

No hiding place for Hleb Bykau

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

Squad20 Mar 2028

Egor Yuschenko falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Abakar Akaev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abakar Akaev commits to Naftan for another 3 years.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

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 Yahor Rios left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Naftan are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

Denys Shelikhov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Naftan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead20 Mar 2028

Yamoussa Camara goes back to face BATE

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Yamoussa Camara’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Naftan needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief