The Ostrovets Post
Match4 Mar 2028
Ostrovets let it slip despite Denis Khvostovich
Denis Khvostovich had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Belshina were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Andrey Agapov keeps Ostrovets in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Alexey Semenov keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ostrovets may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Denis Khvostovich signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denis Khvostovich commits to Ostrovets for another 4 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Ostrovets
Gleb Krivtsov 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Ostrovets
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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
The owner puts $77.6K into Ostrovets
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Transfer targets6 Mar 2028
Slavia Mozyr tell Ostrovets: Anatoliy Yarmolich is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Words at Ostrovets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Egor Mikhey 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
- Market Valery Gordeichuk steps up from the Ostrovets academy
- Market One of our own: Raman Laptev joins the Ostrovets first team
- Market Ostrovets promote Ivan Arlouski from within