The KAMAZ Chronicle
The dugout19 Jul 2032
Yaroslav Volkov: 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.” KAMAZ have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market19 Jul 2032
Terms done: Vitalijs Zjuzins is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Spartak Nalchik waiting with a shirt. Nobody at KAMAZ is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match17 Jul 2032
Still nobody has beaten KAMAZ
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market19 Jul 2032
Henrique Pinto is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at KAMAZ is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom19 Jul 2032
Graduation day at KAMAZ
5 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.
Squad19 Jul 2032
Words at KAMAZ training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Georgy Suanov 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.
Match17 Jul 2032
Georgy Suanov the difference as KAMAZ beat Leningradets
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Georgy Suanov. 2‑1 against Leningradets, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings19 Jul 2032
Przemysław Mizera runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market19 Jul 2032
One of our own: Vasily Kolmakov joins the KAMAZ first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vasily Kolmakov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market KAMAZ promote Evgeniy Ushakov from within
- Boardroom No signings allowed at KAMAZ
- Boardroom A promise the KAMAZ board did not keep