The Ordabasy Courier
Squad14 Dec 2026
The knee: Mihai Căpăţînă out for 25 days
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ordabasy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Ordabasy
Qazhymūqan Tölepbergen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Dec 2026
Yeldos Akhmetov steps up from the Ordabasy academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yeldos Akhmetov 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Ordabasy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yurii Vakulko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
When it matters, Léo Natel 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Yegor Baburin has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Yegor Baburin has written the date down.
In brief
- Market The Everton Moraes talk will not go away
- The dugout Tidiane Keita keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Aibol Murtazaev back in training
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Murodzhon Khalmatov