Viktor Boyko

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633 Edition

The UCSA Post

13 Sep 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match11 Sep 2038

No clean sheets in sight for UCSA

11 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Player ratings13 Sep 2038

Age has not caught Pablo Castro yet — 9.00

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad13 Sep 2038

Tempers go at UCSA

Pablo Castro 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.

Match11 Sep 2038

No end in sight to UCSA's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at UCSA has to find a result from somewhere.

Match11 Sep 2038

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about UCSA and Zorya in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad13 Sep 2038

Oleh Sobol 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.

Match11 Sep 2038

UCSA share the spoils with Zorya

A 3‑3 draw with Zorya leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad13 Sep 2038

Eduard Zinchenko stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Eduard Zinchenko and UCSA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings13 Sep 2038

Nobody could get near Alessandro Rizza

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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630 Edition

The UCSA Post

23 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Aug 2038

A one-man rearguard from Oleh Sobol

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad23 Aug 2038

Anton Demchenko takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match21 Aug 2038

Anton Demchenko settles it late for UCSA

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Anton Demchenko decided nobody was going anywhere. Kolos had no time left to answer.

Player ratings23 Aug 2038

Anton Demchenko, 33, rolls back the years — 9.70

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.70 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match21 Aug 2038

UCSA are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Market23 Aug 2038

Artur Drobot asks to leave UCSA

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad23 Aug 2038

Viktor Boyko: 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.” UCSA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad23 Aug 2038

Pablo Castro 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 UCSA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match21 Aug 2038

UCSA get the job done against Kolos

A 5‑4 win over Kolos, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

623 Edition

The UCSA Post

5 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Jul 2038

Pablo Castro signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pablo Castro and UCSA agree another 3 years.

Squad5 Jul 2038

Pablo Castro 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 UCSA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom5 Jul 2038

$1.2M on the table at UCSA

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Squad5 Jul 2038

Anton Demchenko has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at UCSA will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Boardroom5 Jul 2038

Intake day at the UCSA academy

6 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

Squad5 Jul 2038

Words at UCSA training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Melos Bajrami 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

594 Edition

The UCSA Post

14 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Dec 2037

Maksym Shaparenko damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad14 Dec 2037

Viktor Boyko says UCSA went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad14 Dec 2037

Tempers go at UCSA

Pablo Castro 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.

Squad14 Dec 2037

Wendell is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.48 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings14 Dec 2037

Alessandro Rizza runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Dec 2037

UCSA come up short against Victoriia Sumy

Victoriia Sumy left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings14 Dec 2037

Renato Pellegrini was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Market14 Dec 2037

Matheus Fogo linked with a move away

The name of Matheus Fogo keeps appearing in other people's back pages. UCSA say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings14 Dec 2037

Anton Demchenko leaves them behind him

Shots: 8. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

  • Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Wendell
  • Market The clock does Melos Bajrami’s negotiating for him
  • Boardroom The UCSA board put their names to it
552 Edition

The UCSA Post

23 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Feb 2037

Maksym Bondar breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad23 Feb 2037

Viktor Boyko: 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.” UCSA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad23 Feb 2037

Pablo Castro 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 UCSA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief