The Akron Chronicle
Squad4 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Karlen Hovhannisyan
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Akron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bojan Dimoski 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.
Match2 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Akron against Rubin
1‑2 to Rubin, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Yegor Baburin
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Mikhail Bokov joins the Akron first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikhail Bokov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market4 Jan 2027
Akron promote Artyom Dolgikh from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artyom Dolgikh 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
One of our own: Kirill Zyuzin joins the Akron first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kirill Zyuzin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market4 Jan 2027
Akron promote Sergey Isakov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergey Isakov 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Akron
Maxim Boldyrev 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Squad Akron have started building around Yury Zheleznov
- The dugout Kevin Arévalo gets picked when it counts