The Dinamo Minsk Gazette
Match22 May 2027
24 unbeaten for Dinamo Minsk
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 24 matches without defeat is a foundation Dinamo Minsk did not have in the autumn.
Squad24 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gleb Sereda
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Minsk lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match22 May 2027
The run is over for Dinamo Minsk
15 matches without defeat, and then Slavia Mozyr. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad24 May 2027
Fawaz Abdullahi 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
No hiding place for Karen Vardanyan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Karen Vardanyan, and the manager let it.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Dinamo Minsk
Vasiliy Vasilenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch24 May 2027
Ivan Shimakovich wants to come home
“I did not go to Neman to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Minsk and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Guljigit Alykulov stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.26 on the card, and the Dinamo Minsk support went home talking about one name.
The dugout24 May 2027
Žan-Luk Leban 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 Žan-Luk Leban trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout Dinamo Minsk pick somebody else ahead of Roman Begunov
- Squad Karen Vardanyan wants out of the dugout