The Tskhinvali Post
Squad28 Feb 2028
Vakhtang Shengelia 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 Tskhinvali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Dário Júnior is slowing down
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Dário Júnior 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Tskhinvali count the cost of losing Temur Shengelia
36 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Filipe Cirne
“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 dugout28 Feb 2028
Davit Tsitaishvili gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Davit Tsitaishvili is on it.
In brief
- Market Vakhtang Shengelia linked with a move away
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Tornike Mchedlidze