The Chernihiv Courier
Squad30 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Dmytro Myronenko out for 98 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Chernihiv will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Maksym Kovalenko, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 7.82
A mark of 7.82 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market30 Jul 2029
As if he never left: Oleh Sirenko returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Oleh Sirenko is a Chernihiv player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market30 Jul 2029
As if he never left: Viktor Rotan returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Viktor Rotan is a Chernihiv player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market30 Jul 2029
Anton Bezus comes home
The shirt still fits. Anton Bezus is back at Chernihiv, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market30 Jul 2029
As if he never left: Volodymyr Zinchenko returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Volodymyr Zinchenko is a Chernihiv player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Chernihiv
Maksym Tatarenko 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Andrii Novikov has improved at 30, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom30 Jul 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Chernihiv
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- Match Chernihiv get the job done against Ahrobiznes
- The terraces Chernihiv supporters have found a favourite in Maksym Kovalenko
- Squad Maksym Shumylo falls out with a teammate over standards