The Podillia Courier
The terraces30 Jul 2029
Supporters organise against the Podillia board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market30 Jul 2029
Stanislav Oksenenko asks to leave Podillia
“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 Jul 2029
Real improvement from Mykyta Velihorskyi at Podillia
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mykyta Velihorskyi is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at Podillia
Leon Ayinde 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.
Boardroom30 Jul 2029
Graduation day at Podillia
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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Late improvement for Yevhen Korokhov
At 31 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad30 Jul 2029
William Ovalle wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Podillia can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match28 Jul 2029
The goals have deserted Podillia
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Podillia can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Podillia rebuffed over Oleksiy Haiduchok
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and Podillia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Andriy Pikhalyonok joins the Podillia first team
- Market Podillia promote Stanislav Rotan from within
- Market Podillia promote Ihor Kryvtsov from within