The Baranovichi Post
Match17 Jan 2028
Baranovichi sink to position 13
23 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market17 Jan 2028
Aldiiar Ältaev puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Baranovichi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A falling-out at Baranovichi
Timur Pukhov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Baranovichi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Egor Lapun was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
Valeriy Potorocha gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Valeriy Potorocha is on it.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
Vadim Balbukh knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vadim Balbukh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout17 Jan 2028
A promise honoured for Grisha Paronyan
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Baranovichi told Grisha Paronyan something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market17 Jan 2028
The shop window has Fedor Lebedev in it
Baranovichi have let the market know Fedor Lebedev can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market17 Jan 2028
Still no signature from Stanislav Stefanovich
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Baranovichi could get for him.
In brief
- Squad Akim Belokhonov is not doing himself any favours
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Yauhen Volodko
- Squad Welcome back, Egor Yablonski