Anton Babenko

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Livyi Bereh U18
11 Oct 2029
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Marked for Anton Babenko

161 Edition

The Livyi Bereh Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nazarii Vorobchak runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Ihor Potimkov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Livyi Bereh is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at Livyi Bereh

Nazarii Vorobchak 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.

Boardroom

Livyi Bereh counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Livyi Bereh now.

Match

6 unbeaten for Livyi Bereh

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Livyi Bereh did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Livyi Bereh count the cost of losing Anton Babenko

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

Match

Livyi Bereh see off Nyva

Three points for Livyi Bereh, 1‑0 the final word against Nyva in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Denys Ihnatenko reaches 50 shut-outs

50 games in 97 appearances where nobody scored at all. A keeper's career is counted in nothing happening, and none of this happened by accident.

Squad

Words at Livyi Bereh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Serhii Kosovskyi 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nazar Voloshyn takes the honours
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Nazar Bondar gets it from the manager
Back issues
157 Edition

The Livyi Bereh Sentinel

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Livyi Bereh

Nazarii Vorobchak 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Livyi Bereh

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.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Livyi Bereh

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Livyi Bereh rebuffed over Yaroslav Karpizin

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Metalist have kept their man, and Livyi Bereh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Livyi Bereh promote Yevhen Mudryk from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yevhen Mudryk 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.

Market

One of our own: Anton Babenko joins the Livyi Bereh first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anton Babenko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Oleksandr Matvienko steps up from the Livyi Bereh academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oleksandr Matvienko 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.

Market

Oleksandr Matvienko steps up from the Livyi Bereh academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oleksandr Matvienko 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