Ivan Nesterov

Left Midfielder - Fakel U19
21 Oct 2029
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122 Edition

The Fakel Courier

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad27 Nov 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Max Dziov

95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fakel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings27 Nov 2028

Nichita Moțpan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Ivan Nesterov breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Merabi Uridia 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 Fakel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad27 Nov 2028

Islam Imamov 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.

Boardroom27 Nov 2028

The numbers do not look good at Fakel

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

In brief

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121 Edition

The Fakel Courier

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings20 Nov 2028

Nichita Moțpan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 62. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad20 Nov 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Max Dziov

102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fakel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match20 Nov 2028

Fakel are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad20 Nov 2028

Ivan Nesterov breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad20 Nov 2028

Tempers go at Fakel

Merabi Uridia 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.

Squad20 Nov 2028

Words at Fakel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilnur Alshin 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.

Match18 Nov 2028

Leon Sabua the difference as Fakel beat Ufa

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leon Sabua. 2‑0 against Ufa, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings20 Nov 2028

A masterclass from Leon Sabua

Marked 8.40 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings20 Nov 2028

Nikolay Giorgobiani in the eights

A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

120 Edition

The Fakel Courier

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Nov 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Max Dziov

109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fakel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Ivan Nesterov breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings13 Nov 2028

Nobody could get near Nuri Abdokov

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match11 Nov 2028

The wait goes on for Fakel

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match11 Nov 2028

The goals have deserted Fakel

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Fakel can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Merabi Uridia 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 Fakel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad Ilnur Alshin falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Match Fakel come up short against Chaika
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Fakel dressing room in a hurry
  • Boardroom Wages eat 85% of everything Fakel earn