Artyom Ushakov

Striker - Spartak Kostroma U19
28 May 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Artyom Ushakov

113 Edition

The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Artem Bandikyan shuts the door

Defensive actions: 35, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Giorgy Uridia: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Spartak Kostroma have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Kostroma

Daniel Sappa 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

One of those days for Nikolay Tarasov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.96, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nikita Demchenko

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Nikolay Tarasov sends Spartak Kostroma past Sokol

It finished 1‑0, and it was Nikolay Tarasov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Spartak Kostroma.

Player ratings

One of those days for Matija Popović

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Maxim Dmitriev

“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

Spartak Kostroma count the cost of losing Artyom Ushakov

28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The Spartak Kostroma Gazette

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nikita Supranovich out for 61 days

The medical room confirms 61 days on the sidelines for Nikita Supranovich, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Tempers go at Spartak Kostroma

Daniel Sappa 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.

Market

Yefrem Blokhin comes home

The shirt still fits. Yefrem Blokhin is back at Spartak Kostroma, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Pyotr Kalinin comes home

The shirt still fits. Pyotr Kalinin is back at Spartak Kostroma, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Anton Ogarev is a Spartak Kostroma player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Artyom Ushakov is a Spartak Kostroma player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Match

Amur Kalmykov’s goal not enough for Spartak Kostroma

Amur Kalmykov scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Rostov, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

No hiding place for Denis Zhilmostnykh

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Zhilmostnykh, and the manager let it.

Squad

Costly mistake from Daniel Sappa

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Daniel Sappa knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

In brief