Tomás Viola

Central Midfielder - Nizhniy Novgorod
7 Dec 2029
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167 Edition

The Nizhniy Novgorod Chronicle

8 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 Oct 2029

Seb Stacey is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Seb Stacey: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match3 Oct 2029

Cup progress for Nizhniy Novgorod

A 0‑0 win over Kosmos, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad8 Oct 2029

A falling-out at Nizhniy Novgorod

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

Player ratings8 Oct 2029

Tomás Viola runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad8 Oct 2029

Words at Nizhniy Novgorod training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maarten Paes 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.

Boardroom8 Oct 2029

Nizhniy Novgorod beat the market to Marko Totka from Krylya Sovetov

Krylya Sovetov will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Marko Totka has pre-agreed a move to Nizhniy Novgorod, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match6 Oct 2029

Kerfala Cissoko sends Nizhniy Novgorod past Rubin

It finished 2‑1, and it was Kerfala Cissoko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nizhniy Novgorod.

The terraces8 Oct 2029

Nizhniy Novgorod supporters have found a favourite in Aarón Ochoa

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Aarón Ochoa has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout8 Oct 2029

The manager makes an example of Nikita Yermakov

“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.

In brief

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155 Edition

The Nizhniy Novgorod Chronicle

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom16 Jul 2029

Nizhniy Novgorod part company with Aleksey Sychev

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Boardroom16 Jul 2029

Danila Zhirinovsky steps up at Nizhniy Novgorod for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Market16 Jul 2029

Nizhniy Novgorod say no — this time

The offer from Spartak Kostroma for Matvey Fedorov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market16 Jul 2029

Pontus Lindgren is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nizhniy Novgorod is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad16 Jul 2029

A falling-out at Nizhniy Novgorod

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

Transfer targets16 Jul 2029

Nizhniy Novgorod rebuffed over Vladimir Zadiraka

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Akron have kept their man, and Nizhniy Novgorod go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad16 Jul 2029

Tomás Viola is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad16 Jul 2029

A move Valer Chachava would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Valer Chachava is living that version at Nizhniy Novgorod, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom16 Jul 2029

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Nizhniy Novgorod

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

In brief