The Livyi Bereh Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Illia Kvasnytsia 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 Livyi Bereh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Livyi Bereh
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sidnney was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Vikentiy Voloshyn was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Livyi Bereh rebuffed over Danylo Ishchenko
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and Livyi Bereh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Livyi Bereh against Feniks
1‑2 to Feniks, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Illia Kvasnytsia
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Oleksiy Mykhailychenko joins the Livyi Bereh first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oleksiy Mykhailychenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Livyi Bereh promote Valentyn Yaremchuk from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valentyn Yaremchuk 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Andriy Kovalenko steps up from the Livyi Bereh academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andriy Kovalenko 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 Bohdan Burda steps up from the Livyi Bereh academy
- Player ratings Illia Kvasnytsia stands above it all
- Squad Livyi Bereh are still strangers to each other