Marked for Ivan Volodko
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotiv Gomel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Lokomotiv Gomel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Lokomotiv Gomel's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotiv Gomel has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Egor Hleb scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Ostrovets, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ihar Skavysh
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Volodko 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ivan Kendysh has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Lokomotiv Gomel.
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Uneasy
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ivan Noyok runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
Isloch go through and Lokomotiv Gomel go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match15 Aug 2026
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Uni-X Labs kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Lokomotiv Gomel will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Match15 Aug 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Lokomotiv Gomel are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yuri Gordeichuk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Ostrovets have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Vitaliy Volodko. The answer from Lokomotiv Gomel has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktar Filipenko, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ivan Volodko 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mikita Yablonski and Lokomotiv Gomel agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yuri Gordeichuk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Noyok
“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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A mark of 6.99, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mikita Yablonski asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Match8 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Volna Pinsk defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ivan Volodko’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lokomotiv Gomel can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Osipovichi for Vitaliy Volodko 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Maksim Kislyak scored one and made one — 7.50
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.50, and 2 involvements.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match1 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Lokomotiv Gomel and Belshina in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lokomotiv Gomel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Lokomotiv Gomel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Volodko 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Volodko, and the manager let it.