Danila Yakovlev

Left Wingback - Legion
8 Mar 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Danila Yakovlev

19 Edition

The Legion Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Legion's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Legion has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A fracture rules Kristijan Pjaca out for 66 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Legion will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Ahmed Sharaf signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmed Sharaf and Legion agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Legion

Yegor Pozdnyakov 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.

Squad

Anzor Tokaev 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.

Match

Legion and Nart take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Legion Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kirill Gurov

26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Legion lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A fracture rules Kristijan Pjaca out for 94 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Legion will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

No end in sight to Legion's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Legion has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Legion cannot find the net

8 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Jamaludin Ipaev 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 Legion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Danilo 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Legion Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Legion out

Out, 0‑0 to Druzhba, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Danila Yakovlev

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Legion come up short against Dinamo Stavropol

Dinamo Stavropol left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Tempers go at Legion

Danilo 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ilja Yezhov

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ilja Yezhov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Yaroslav Matvienko misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

Market

A long bet from Legion on Andrey Zhigalov

He is 20, and nobody at Legion signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

6 new faces, and Legion are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief