Pavlo Stepanenko

Right Forward - Veres U19
22 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Pavlo Stepanenko

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The Veres Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

5 matches without a win for Veres

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Veres are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Vladyslav Sharai 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 Veres this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Fabrício Yan again

The phone has started ringing about Fabrício Yan again, and this time the name on the line is Chernihiv. Veres are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match

A bad afternoon for Veres against Polissia

1‑3 to Polissia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets

UCSA tell Veres: Oleksiy Khoblenko is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alagie Wally

“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.

Squad

Pavlo Stepanenko signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pavlo Stepanenko commits to Veres for another 3 years.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Roman Tymchyk left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings

Gonçalves beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

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The Veres Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrii Kozhukhar stands alone

12 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Veres taken apart

1‑4 to Shakhtar, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings

Dmytro Hodia, 21, steals the show — 7.79

Marked 7.79 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Daniel Adu-Adjei

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Veres have done the hard part with HNK Rijeka, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Kai Cipot signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kai Cipot commits to Veres for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Veres

Wesley Pomba and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Veres rebuffed over Marian Shved

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Veres go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: Serhiy Zinchenko joins the Veres first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Serhiy Zinchenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Pavlo Stepanenko joins the Veres first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pavlo Stepanenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief