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The Baranovichi Post

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Baranovichi

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

Tempers go at Baranovichi

Timur Pukhov 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.

Squad

Egor Yuschenko 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.

The terraces

Baranovichi supporters have found a favourite in Stanislav Stefanovich

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Stanislav Stefanovich 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.

Squad

Egor Lapun gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Aldiiar Ältaev sends Baranovichi past Smorgon

It finished 1‑0, and it was Aldiiar Ältaev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Baranovichi.

Squad

Baranovichi count the cost of losing Vladimir Fedotov

17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Stanislav Stefanovich stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.64 on the card, and the Baranovichi support went home talking about one name.

Market

Baranovichi sign Caleb Sweeney, one for the future

Caleb Sweeney is 18, and Baranovichi have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief