The Belshina Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Belshina
Pavel Prishivalko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Nikita Sokolovskiy
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Artem Polshakov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Artem Polshakov has just signed for Belshina, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Yaroslav Chistyakov will join Belshina for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Yaroslav Chistyakov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Belshina have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Evgeniy Yudchits
Belshina asked and Isloch said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Belshina training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikita Golub 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
One of their own: Arseniy Achapovskiy
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market10 Aug 2026
Belshina promote Kirill Arlouski from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kirill Arlouski 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Stanislau Kavalyou joins the Belshina first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stanislau Kavalyou is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Maksim Bykau joins the Belshina first team
- Market Kirill Signevich steps up from the Belshina academy
- Match Danila Slesarchuk sends Belshina past Orsha