Aleksei Pluzhnikov

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Kosmos U19
31 Jan 2027
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Process

Marked for Aleksei Pluzhnikov

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The Kosmos Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cup progress for Kosmos

A 2‑1 win over Torpedo Vladimir, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Kosmos win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Torpedo Vladimir will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market

Andrey Nazar hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kosmos can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Both of them Nikita Yershov's — 8.63

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.63, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Nikita Yershov the difference as Kosmos beat Cherepovets

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nikita Yershov. 2‑0 against Cherepovets, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vitaly Logachev

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Aleksei Pluzhnikov out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Aleksei Pluzhnikov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Kosmos

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market

Kosmos sign Aidan Ibrahimaga, one for the future

Aidan Ibrahimaga is 20, and Kosmos have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

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The Kosmos Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Daniil Goncharov 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 Kosmos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Kosmos find a way past Saturn

Saturn made Kosmos work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nikita Yershov

At 23 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.

Market

Vasily Suslov steps up from the Kosmos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vasily Suslov 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.

Market

Kosmos promote Aleksei Pluzhnikov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aleksei Pluzhnikov 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.

Market

Maxim Savin steps up from the Kosmos academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Maxim Savin 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.

Market

One of our own: Semyon Ovchinnikov joins the Kosmos first team

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Nikita Yershov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.49, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Danila Matvevnin

Marked 8.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief