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Steady
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market9 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ostrovets waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Slavia Mozyr is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexey Antilevskiy commits to Slavia Mozyr for another 4 years.
Market9 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Slavia Mozyr have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Legia have kept their man, and Slavia Mozyr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Vitaliy Likhtin 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
Minsk left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Slavia Mozyr training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pavel Chikida 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 62. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market12 Jul 2027
Ivan Chintsov 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 Slavia Mozyr can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market12 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Everything agreed with Slask, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Slask is saying, and nobody at Slavia Mozyr is enjoying the guessing.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Olexandr Batischev 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandr Derzhinskiy and Slavia Mozyr agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
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.
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Steady
Market7 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match7 Jun 2027
23 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slavia Mozyr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Nikita Zelimov 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Andrey Shemruk named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Andrey Shemruk is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Dzhigero, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market28 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alexandr Dzhigero has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Olexandr Batischev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Slavia Mozyr do not lose
6 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Slutsk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.80. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Slavia Mozyr
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Osipovichi, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.80 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Slavia Mozyr sell a favourite for $120.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Konstantin Veretynskiy was one of the reasons people came, and $120.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market17 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Slavia Mozyr they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Slavia Mozyr have done the hard part with Dynamo Kyiv, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Slavia Sofia is saying, and nobody at Slavia Mozyr is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Olexandr Batischev 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.