Andrey Laptev

Goalkeeper - Minsk
18 Oct 2029
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157 Edition

The Minsk Courier

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match25 Jul 2029

Minsk out of the cup

Torpedo-BelAZ ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match28 Jul 2029

The wait goes on for Minsk

7 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.

Market30 Jul 2029

Pavel Tarletskiy turns Volna Pinsk down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Market30 Jul 2029

Andrey Laptev 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 Minsk can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings30 Jul 2029

Nobody could get near Ignat Pranovich

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Alexandr Gutor 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 Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets30 Jul 2029

Dinamo Minsk tell Minsk: Yauhen Chalavach is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings30 Jul 2029

Alexandr Ksenofontov in the eights

A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match28 Jul 2029

Late, late show earns Minsk a point

Minute 85, against Smorgon, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

In brief

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The Minsk Courier

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 Jan 2029

43 days out for Ilya Sviridenko after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Minsk will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout22 Jan 2029

Vsevolod Narushevich: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Minsk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market22 Jan 2029

Alexandr Veretennikov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Minsk they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad22 Jan 2029

Alexandr Gutor 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 Minsk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout22 Jan 2029

Ilya Dubinets has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Minsk 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.

Market22 Jan 2029

The Daouda Natama story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Daouda Natama signs something — a contract at Minsk or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout22 Jan 2029

Ilya Bondarenko 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 Ilya Bondarenko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad22 Jan 2029

“I want to play”: Vsevolod Narushevich speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout22 Jan 2029

The manager plants his flag on Alexandr Gutor

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Alexandr Gutor’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

  • Squad Andrey Laptev finally belongs at Minsk
  • Boardroom The Minsk production line keeps running
  • Boardroom The Minsk board put their names to it
123 Edition

The Minsk Courier

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Dec 2028

Ilya Sviridenko breaks a bone — 95 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 95 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout4 Dec 2028

Ilya Bondarenko says Minsk went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad4 Dec 2028

Alexandr Gutor signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandr Gutor and Minsk agree another 2 years.

Squad4 Dec 2028

A falling-out at Minsk

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

Squad4 Dec 2028

Andrey Laptev gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andrey Laptev has just signed for Minsk, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout4 Dec 2028

When it matters, Konstantin Kuchinskiy plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief