The Epicentr Sentinel
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joaquinete
84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Epicentr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Kyrylo Kovalets out for 63 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Epicentr will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Kyrylo Kovalets 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 Epicentr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Epicentr
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Epicentr training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksandr Klymets 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
A bad afternoon for Epicentr against Metalist
1‑2 to Metalist, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market2 Aug 2027
One of our own: Ruslan Harmash joins the Epicentr first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruslan Harmash is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Aug 2027
Epicentr promote Vasyl Shevchuk from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vasyl Shevchuk 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Kostiantyn Tymchyk steps up from the Epicentr academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kostiantyn Tymchyk 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.
In brief
- Market Epicentr promote Volodymyr Tymchyk from within
- Player ratings A masterclass from Carlos Rojas
- Loan watch Oleksandr Shopronku counts the days