Arda Akzhan

Central Midfielder - Ordabasy
29 Oct 2028
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Marked for Arda Akzhan

86 Edition

The Ordabasy Courier

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Mar 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hamilton

63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ordabasy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

Sūltanbek Astanov frozen out at Ordabasy

This is not rotation. Sūltanbek Astanov has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Ordabasy is pretending otherwise.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Words exchanged at Ordabasy

Tidiane Keita 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.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Mihai Căpăţînă 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 ratings20 Mar 2028

One of those days for Sūltanbek Astanov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

Bekkhan Shaizada 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.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Arda Akzhan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arda Akzhan and Ordabasy agree another 4 years.

Match18 Mar 2028

Sūltanbek Astanov rescues a point for Ordabasy

It needed Sūltanbek Astanov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Atyrau, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

Bjørn Johnsen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ordabasy 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.

In brief

Back issues
36 Edition

The Ordabasy Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Apr 2027

Dauren Islamkhan damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Home is on Léo Natel's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ordabasy are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad5 Apr 2027

The step up is real for Arda Akzhan

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad5 Apr 2027

David Abagna 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 Ordabasy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match3 Apr 2027

Ordabasy come up short against Zhetysu

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

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Bekkhan Shaizada 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 ratings5 Apr 2027

Sūltanbek Astanov ran the game

Chances created: 13. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Dauren Orazov faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Dauren Orazov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout5 Apr 2027

Mihai Căpăţînă dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

34 Edition

The Ordabasy Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad22 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dauren Islamkhan

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ordabasy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

Nobody could get near Léo Natel

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match20 Mar 2027

A bad afternoon for Ordabasy against Tobol

0‑1 to Tobol, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Words at Ordabasy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. El'khan Astanov 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.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Arda Akzhan stays put

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

The dugout22 Mar 2027

Dauren Orazov: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad22 Mar 2027

5 new faces, and Ordabasy are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Murodzhon Khalmatov

“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.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

Viktor Ziabko dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief