Ivan Ryzhkov

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Marked for Ivan Ryzhkov

64 Edition

The Ural 2 Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad18 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Ural 2

Ivan Ryzhkov 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.

The terraces18 Oct 2027

Ural 2 supporters have found a favourite in Savely Zolkin

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Savely Zolkin 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.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Savely Zolkin takes the honours

Marked 7.20 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ural 2 had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Alexey Mamin 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 Alexey Mamin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Nobody could get near Leonid Belov

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match16 Oct 2027

Point won or two lost for Ural 2?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Nosta? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

The plan did not have a place for Vladimir Pavlov

Nobody at Ural 2 is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Dato Chertkoev unlocks it

Chances created: 6. The column nobody reads carried the whole story of the match, and his name was at the top of it.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Evgeny Kharin speaks, and the room listens

“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at Ural 2 was different afterwards.

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61 Edition

The Ural 2 Chronicle

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Ilja Khatuntsev goes up and wins it — 7.50

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 7.50 for the rest of it.

Match25 Sep 2027

Whatever happens, Ural 2 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.

Market27 Sep 2027

Vladimir Pavlov told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vladimir Pavlov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ural 2.

Match25 Sep 2027

KDV Tomsk end the Ural 2 run at 4

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Both jobs done by Dato Chertkoev — 6.79

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 6.79, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

The manager makes an example of Ivan Ryzhkov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match25 Sep 2027

Ilja Khatuntsev rescues a point for Ural 2

It needed Ilja Khatuntsev to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against KDV Tomsk, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Vladimir Pavlov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Ilja Khatuntsev finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Ural 2 have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

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40 Edition

The Ural 2 Chronicle

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 May 2027

A row about effort at Ural 2

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniil Sekach was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad3 May 2027

A step back for Viktor Vasilev at Ural 2

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout3 May 2027

Vladimir Pavlov knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ural 2, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market3 May 2027

The Vladimir Pavlov talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Ural 2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad3 May 2027

The armband comes off Ivan Kuznetsov

Ural 2 will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad3 May 2027

Ivan Kuznetsov: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Ural 2 will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

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39 Edition

The Ural 2 Chronicle

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Apr 2027

A row about effort at Ural 2

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Artem Kulikov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

Vladimir Pavlov asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Viktor Vasilev still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Ural 2 would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

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