Alexandr Lazarev

Right Back - Rodina 2
1 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 2 Transfers 4 Relations Events 33 Awards Matches History

Marked for Alexandr Lazarev

5 Edition

The Rodina 2 Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match31 Aug 2026

Rodina 2 sink to position 8

0 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market31 Aug 2026

Not going: Alexandr Lazarev stays at Rodina 2

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Torpedo Vladimir had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market31 Aug 2026

Stanislav Basyrov 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 Rodina 2 can pretend not to have heard.

Match29 Aug 2026

The wait goes on for Rodina 2

5 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Eyes on Svyatoslav Kozhedub again

The phone has started ringing about Svyatoslav Kozhedub again, and this time the name on the line is Nizhniy Novgorod. Rodina 2 are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match29 Aug 2026

Rodina 2 leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match29 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Rodina 2 against Murom

1‑2 to Murom, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Svyatoslav Kozhedub 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 Rodina 2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Rodina 2

23 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad A row about effort at Rodina 2
  • The dugout No hiding place for Pavel Baranov
Back issues
4 Edition

The Rodina 2 Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Alexandr Stenyakin

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match22 Aug 2026

Chastening afternoon for Rodina 2

A 0‑3 beating by Kuban was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market24 Aug 2026

Pavel Baranov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rodina 2, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match22 Aug 2026

No end in sight to Rodina 2's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rodina 2 has to find a result from somewhere.

Match22 Aug 2026

No clean sheets in sight for Rodina 2

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Rodina 2

Astemir Khezhev 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Eyes on Alexandr Lazarev again

The phone has started ringing about Alexandr Lazarev again, and this time the name on the line is Torpedo Vladimir. Rodina 2 are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Rodina 2 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Svyatoslav Kozhedub 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.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Doors closed at Rodina 2

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief