The Veles Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Veles
Dmitry Sadov 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Veles come up short against Mashuk
Mashuk left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ilya Golovin joins the Veles first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ilya Golovin 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
Veles promote Nazar Balabanov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nazar Balabanov 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
Veles promote Vitaliy Bystrov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vitaliy Bystrov 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
Veles promote Boris Kokorin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Boris Kokorin 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.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Miroslav Maslov left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Veles man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Zakhar Tarasenko was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ilja Kuptsov
“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.
In brief
- Squad Dmitry Sadov still has not settled
- The dugout No place in the plan for Alexandr Shubin
- Player ratings Kirill Korolkov beats them one at a time