Marked for Yahor Chalavach
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Maxim Yablonskiy 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Molodechno
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maxim Martusevich was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Back issues
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Molodechno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Mykyta Kyslyi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Molodechno have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Maxim Yablonskiy 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Egor Imeryakov and Molodechno agree another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Maxim Martusevich falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yahor Chalavach has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Molodechno
Something was said to Nikita Vekhtev and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nikita Matusevich is the weekend's best young player
At 17 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Naftan in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.