The Vitebsk Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikita Naumov
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vitebsk lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Radivoj Bosić runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vitebsk
Radivoj Bosić 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Vitebsk agree a free transfer for Timur Minets
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Emiljano Vila 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ihar Klimovich joins the Vitebsk first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ihar Klimovich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ruslan Makas steps up from the Vitebsk academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruslan Makas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Raman Stasevich joins the Vitebsk first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raman Stasevich is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Yan Gordeichuk joins the Vitebsk first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yan Gordeichuk is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match Evgeniy Krasnov the difference as Vitebsk beat Slutsk
- Player ratings Evgeniy Krasnov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad Mikhail Osipov signs on for more