Juan Manuel Centurión

Goalkeeper - Aktobe
13 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Juan Manuel Centurión

104 Edition

The Aktobe Courier

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Aktobe run riot against Akzhaiyk

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Market

Aktobe turn down Atyrau for Daniel Sosah

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

Nobody wants to play Aktobe right now

5 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.

Player ratings

Talğat Kusiapov goes up and wins it — 7.74

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.74 for the rest of it.

Player ratings

Pablo Álvarez pops up at the right end — 7.70

7.70, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Only the photograph left for Aleksandr Petrosyan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aleksandr Petrosyan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aktobe the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

Juan Manuel Centurión is a medical away from Aktobe

The deal with Independiente is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Tempers go at Aktobe

Pablo Álvarez 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.

Transfer targets

Ordabasy tell Aktobe: Sūltan Būsyrmanov is not for sale

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.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Aktobe training over how hard people work
  • The dugout Ivan Ordets left out for the big one
  • Player ratings Daniel Sosah stands above it all
Back issues
103 Edition

The Aktobe Courier

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Terms done: Erkebūlan Seidakhmet is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Atyrau waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Aktobe is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Daniel Sosah says no to Zhetysu

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Daniel Sosah had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Temirlan Anarbekov will not be coming to Aktobe

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Kairat is saying, and nobody at Aktobe is enjoying the guessing.

Market

Danil Podymskii 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 Aktobe can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Aktobe cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Pablo Álvarez 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 Aktobe this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Daniel Sosah 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 Aktobe know it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mikhail Tsulaia

Aktobe asked and Nizhniy Novgorod said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Aktobe find a way past Ordabasy

Ordabasy made Aktobe work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief