Hlib Ziniar

Striker - Poltava
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Marked for Hlib Ziniar

117 Edition

The Poltava Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match21 Oct 2028

Poltava run riot against Victoriia Sumy

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.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Bohdan Kobzar takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

A masterclass from Bohdan Kobzar

Marked 9.46 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad23 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Poltava

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

Squad23 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Poltava

Ivan Kotukha 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.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Ninety minutes of Yan Morhovskyi at his very best

Marked 8.15. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Poltava.

The dugout23 Oct 2028

The manager makes an example of Serhii Shvets

“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.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Hlib Ziniar stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Hlib Ziniar and Poltava agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout23 Oct 2028

A satisfied Dmytro Tymchyk

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Dmytro Tymchyk could afford to be generous.

In brief

Back issues
90 Edition

The Poltava Herald

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Apr 2028

Words exchanged at Poltava

Valerii Voskonyan 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

A muscle injury sidelines Bohdan Kobzar for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Poltava will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout17 Apr 2028

Vladyslav Tiutiunov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Poltava will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market17 Apr 2028

The Maksym Marusych question follows Poltava around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Maksym Marusych’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market17 Apr 2028

The clock does Yevhen Misiura’s negotiating for him

4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Poltava could ask drops and the wages Yevhen Misiura can ask rise.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Yevhen Smyrnyi finally belongs at Poltava

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

81 Edition

The Poltava Herald

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Feb 2028

Denys Smetana 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 Poltava can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets14 Feb 2028

Fee done, terms next for Yevhen Smyrnyi

Poltava and Kudrivka have settled on $380.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad14 Feb 2028

A falling-out at Poltava

Valerii Voskonyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad14 Feb 2028

A row about effort at Poltava

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

Transfer targets14 Feb 2028

Poltava rebuffed over Matteo Raffaelli

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ascoli have kept their man, and Poltava go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market14 Feb 2028

One of our own: Vladyslav Malynovskyi joins the Poltava first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vladyslav Malynovskyi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market14 Feb 2028

Poltava promote Kostiantyn Makarenko from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kostiantyn Makarenko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market14 Feb 2028

One of our own: Eduard Pikhalyonok joins the Poltava first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eduard Pikhalyonok is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout14 Feb 2028

The manager makes an example of Oleksandr Piatov

“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.

In brief