Dmitry Shestakov

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Sochi U19
20 Mar 2033
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dmitry Shestakov

340 Edition

The Sochi Sentinel

31 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Dmitry Shestakov out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sochi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Sochi tear Dinamo Makhachkala apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Dinamo Makhachkala, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Axel Gnapi Dable's — 8.77

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.77, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Dominik Yankov scores twice — 8.28

Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Muhammadali G'iyosov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sochi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Not going: Vsevolod Zuev stays at Sochi

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Sevastopol had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

The dugout

Artem Medvedev says Sochi went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Sochi

Andrey Ivlev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Sochi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ignacio Saavedra 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

Back issues
339 Edition

The Sochi Sentinel

24 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Dmitry Shestakov out for 21 days

21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sochi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Adrian Hansen has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sochi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Sochi

Dominik Yankov 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Sochi

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ignacio Saavedra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Sochi come up short against Akron

Akron left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Petr Kosarevskiy

“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.

The dugout

Interim Coach answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Yegory Achinov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yegory Achinov and Sochi agree another 3 years.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Ignacio Saavedra

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief