The UCSA Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
A day Chris Popov will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Chris Popov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02
A mark of 8.02 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Caleb Demery turns down UCSA
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kyrylo Khovaiko comes home
The shirt still fits. Kyrylo Khovaiko is back at UCSA, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pablo Castro 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 UCSA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
UCSA find a way past Chornomorets
Chornomorets made UCSA work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at UCSA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maksym Andrushchenko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Viacheslav Surkis
UCSA asked and Dynamo Kyiv said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Chris Popov
At 21 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Oleh Bezus joins the UCSA first team
- Market UCSA promote Mykola Buialskyi from within
- Market One of our own: Ivan Boyko joins the UCSA first team