Leon Aiba

Striker - Zvezda
10 Oct 2026
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Marked for Leon Aiba

8 Edition

The Zvezda Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match19 Sep 2026

The wait goes on for Zvezda

7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match19 Sep 2026

4 matches without a goal for Zvezda

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Transfer targets21 Sep 2026

Door shut on Ilja Antonov

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

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Zvezda

Denis Lebedev 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Zvezda come up short against Kolomna

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

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Andrey Zaitsev gets it from the manager

“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.

Transfer targets21 Sep 2026

Ilja Antsiferov stays at Cherepovets as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Zvezda will try again when the window opens; Cherepovets may not be selling by then.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

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 Vyacheslav Fedorov left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Ibrohim Najimov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

  • Squad A row about effort at Zvezda
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Yegor Grafov
  • The dugout Leon Aiba knocks on the manager's door
Back issues
4 Edition

The Zvezda Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match19 Aug 2026

The small margins put Zvezda out

Out, 1‑2 to Irtysh, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A debut Eduard Kolmogorov will not forget — 7.43

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.43 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Match22 Aug 2026

No end in sight to Zvezda's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zvezda has to find a result from somewhere.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Roman Safronov

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

Igor Smirnov 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Zvezda

Denis Lebedev 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.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Zvezda supporters have found a favourite in Eduard Kolmogorov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Eduard Kolmogorov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

Maxim Kopitets gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Leon Aiba beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief