The Rodina Sentinel
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Brian Mansilla beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match14 Nov 2026
11 unbeaten for Rodina
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Rodina did not have in the autumn.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ilja Svinov says Rodina went back on their word
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brian Mansilla 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 Rodina this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for Rodina
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Rodrigo Becão 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Soltmurad Bakaev sends Rodina past KAMAZ
It finished 1‑0, and it was Soltmurad Bakaev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rodina.
Squad16 Nov 2026
200 appearances for Brian Mansilla
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Soltmurad Bakaev at his very best
Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rodina.
In brief
- Market Rodina sign Niccolò Strada, one for the future
- Squad Niccolò Strada signs on for more
- The dugout The view from the dugout