Arseniy Zyuzin

Right Forward - Veles
24 Feb 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Arseniy Zyuzin

108 Edition

The Veles Post

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for Veles

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

Cruel end for Torpedo Vladimir as Veles pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Veles scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings

Bogdan Kudryavtsev could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.26

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.26, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Market

Alexander Nathan asks to leave Veles

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Arseniy Zyuzin, 16, plays like he has been here for years — 7.72

A mark of 7.72 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 16-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Kirill Skvortsov is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Veles

Dmitry Sergeev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kirill Korolkov

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Whatever happens, Veles do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

In brief

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105 Edition

The Veles Post

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Arseniy Zyuzin wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. Arseniy Zyuzin found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Dinamo Kirov went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Market

Kirill Skvortsov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Veles is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Dmitry Sergeev 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Veles training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakhar Tarasenko 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Arseniy Zyuzin

At 16 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.

Match

Veles find a way past Dinamo Kirov

Dinamo Kirov made Veles work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Artem Tsygulev gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Ionafan Sapozhnikov conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Kvant will make the call about Ionafan Sapozhnikov this week. Veles have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Player ratings

Vladislav Galkin stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.81 on the card, and the Veles support went home talking about one name.

In brief