Marked for Sander Igonen
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Silver Teniste damages knee ligaments — 100 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Valdivia 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Goran Smiljanić out for 19 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sillamae Kalev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 Nov 2026
Nomme Kalju ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Timi Lahti 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 Sillamae Kalev this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jonathan Valdivia 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The kick that got away from Sander Igonen
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Sillamae Kalev game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Narva Trans runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
The afternoon belonged to Jairo Pérez
A mark of 7.16, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Goran Smiljanić out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sillamae Kalev will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market2 Nov 2026
Sander Klavan hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sillamae Kalev can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Valdivia 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
Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market14 Sep 2026
Narva Trans come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sillamae Kalev did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Yevhen Opanasenko 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jairo Pérez 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sander Igonen 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.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Levadia, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
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 Sillamae Kalev, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Timi Lahti 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Sillamae Kalev training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yevhen Opanasenko 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Joonas Pikk 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Vlasi Dmitrijev at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sillamae Kalev.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Sillamae Kalev know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Oliver Valakari is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sillamae Kalev has been clear about where Oliver Valakari stands, which is more than many ever get.