The Molodechno Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Molodechno
Maxim Yablonskiy 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yassine Bara 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: Andrei Chalavach joins the Molodechno first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrei Chalavach 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
Dzmitry Palitsevich steps up from the Molodechno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dzmitry Palitsevich 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
Molodechno promote Anton Ihnatovich from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anton Ihnatovich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pavel Noyok steps up from the Molodechno academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pavel Noyok 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
15 new faces, and Molodechno 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Simphiwe Masilela signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simphiwe Masilela and Molodechno agree another 3 years.
Match8 Aug 2026
No goals between Molodechno and Dinamo Minsk
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Dinamo Minsk will be the happier side with the point.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Yassine Bara
- Player ratings The referee tires of Dmitriy Velisevich