Marked for Rauno Ojamaa
From our football correspondent
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 18 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Dec 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Baranov 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 25 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Artur Baranov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 32 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Dec 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rauno Marin 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 39 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rustam Vazitdinov commits to Parnu for another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Artur Kruglov damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 46 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Squad
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Artur Kruglov damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 53 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Nov 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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Rauno Ojamaa out for 61 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Parnu is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Rauno Ojamaa out for 68 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vlasi Pikk and Parnu agree another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Rauno Ojamaa out for 75 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Parnu is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Martin Antonov has agreed terms with Nomme Kalju for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad2 Nov 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hendrik Tamm, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Rauno Ojamaa out for 82 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Rauno Ojamaa out for 89 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Parnu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Hendrik Puri
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Hendrik Puri will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Parnu the goodbyes have quietly begun.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 97 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 104 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
80 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 111 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
87 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Rauno Ojamaa breaks a bone — 118 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 Sep 2026
Hendrik Puri has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Parnu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
94 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Parnu
Rustam Vazitdinov 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Artur Baranov 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Kruglov
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Parnu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 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 Parnu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 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 Parnu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Parnu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Baranov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market7 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.