The Ordabasy Courier
Match6 Mar 2027
Léo Natel settles it late for Ordabasy
The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Léo Natel decided nobody was going anywhere. Akzhaiyk had no time left to answer.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Bjørn Johnsen stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bjørn Johnsen and Ordabasy agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Home is on Guy-Marcelin Kilama's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ordabasy are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Ordabasy
3 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.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Door shut on Nurbek Sarsenbaev
Ordabasy asked and Neftchi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Sergei Malyi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ordabasy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Aleksa Amanović
“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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Askhat Shomko joins the Ordabasy first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Askhat Shomko is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Nurali Shomko steps up from the Ordabasy academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nurali Shomko 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
- Market One of our own: Timur Beysebekov joins the Ordabasy first team
- Match Ordabasy see off Akzhaiyk
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Léo Natel