Lev Yakovlev

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Dinamo Vladivostok
20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Lev Yakovlev

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The Dinamo Vladivostok Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Vladivostok

Ilja Yurchenko 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Dinamo Vladivostok

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valery Pochivalin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Anton Shitov plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Still no ink between Dinamo Vladivostok and Valery Pochivalin

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo Vladivostok, another week without a signature from Valery Pochivalin.

Market

The Ilja Yurchenko talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Vladivostok know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Match

Continental football is in reach for Dinamo Vladivostok

16 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

The dugout

A door opens for Alexey Amelin

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Lev Samsonov knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lev Samsonov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Nikolay Sukhanov

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Nikolay Sukhanov’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

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The Dinamo Vladivostok Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Dinamo Vladivostok march on in the cup

Nosta are out and Dinamo Vladivostok go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Lev Yakovlev was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 33. 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.

Match

Dinamo Vladivostok win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 117th minute. Nosta will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

Bisnat Mbala scores twice — 8.60

Two goals and a mark of 8.60 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Anton Shitov keeps Dinamo Vladivostok in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Maxim Mashnev yet — 7.90

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Vladivostok

Bisnat Mbala 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Dinamo Vladivostok

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daur Kvekveskiri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Bisnat Mbala

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief