The Kapaz Gazette
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
the manager is out at Kapaz
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Yusif İmanov damages knee ligaments — 107 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 107 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.
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
An empty coaching office at Kapaz
There is nobody left to promote and nobody left to run a session. The board have brought in a name the supporters do not know, and the question of how a club gets here will outlast whoever answers it.
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
Interim Coach minds the shop at Kapaz
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.
Match11 Aug 2029
4 matches without a win for Kapaz
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kapaz are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Words exchanged at Kapaz
Pachu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Kapaz
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
AZ tell Kapaz: Donny Malen is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market13 Aug 2029
One of our own: Javid Huseynov joins the Kapaz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Javid Huseynov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Renat Ismayilov steps up from the Kapaz academy
- Market Rufat Madatov steps up from the Kapaz academy
- Market One of our own: Rashad Sadygov joins the Kapaz first team