Dimitar Petrov

Defensive Midfielder - Nyva
9 Dec 2029
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Marked for Dimitar Petrov

84 Edition

The Nyva Post

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Andrii Demydenko asks to leave Nyva

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Marko Kytsun keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nyva may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

So close: Marko Kytsun’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Poltava moved on, Marko Kytsun reports back to Nyva, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Marian Mysyk signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marian Mysyk and Nyva agree another 3 years.

Squad

Dmytro Matsapura 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 Nyva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Nyva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vasyl Burtnyk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
76 Edition

The Nyva Post

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten Nyva

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Getting past Dmytro Matsapura has become the hardest job in the division

16 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.

Squad

Valentyn Napuda 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 Nyva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Maksym Lopyrionok 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Valentyn Napuda at his very best

Marked 8.88. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Nyva.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Valentyn Napuda

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Nyva find a way past Vorskla

Vorskla made Nyva work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Maksym Lopyrionok 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.

Match

Radion Posievkin at the heart of a fast Nyva start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Radion Posievkin in the middle of it, and Vorskla unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

In brief