Marked for Oleksandr Kravets
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match28 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
19 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Match25 Aug 2027
The cup run ends for Kudrivka
1‑3 against Karpaty, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Jair Collahuazo 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Aug 2027
0‑2 to Livyi Bereh, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Anton Yashkov
“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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
17 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 54 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kudrivka can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Oleksandr Bieliaiev 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anton Yashkov 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch23 Aug 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Kudrivka, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Market23 Aug 2027
Honved are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Kudrivka will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Crisis
Match14 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kudrivka will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Aug 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Kudrivka and Oleksandriya, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match14 Aug 2027
Oleksandriya left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Kaya Makosso 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.26, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Match7 Aug 2027
15 matches without a win for Kudrivka
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Oleh Bilyk
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kudrivka will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Aug 2027
The fee is $330.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Epicentr drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Anton Demchenko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Jair Collahuazo 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.
Match7 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Kudrivka against LNZ
1‑3 to LNZ, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market9 Aug 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Valerii Rohozynskyi has his answer from Kudrivka; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market9 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Kudrivka will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match31 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Kudrivka's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kudrivka has to find a result from somewhere.
Market2 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Kudrivka
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match31 Jul 2027
Philipp Simon scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Rukh, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Market2 Aug 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Oleksandr Kravets is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Aug 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mykola Buialskyi 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Volodymyr Burda 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleksandr Kozak, and the manager let it.